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ELK CITY, Idaho (AP) — A highway in northern Idaho has reopened to traffic after crews worked for nearly six months to clean up the area following a major landslide.
KBOI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2ckDWKH ) that State Highway 14 has been cleared of about 15,000 truckloads of debris since the February landslide. Tons of rock and dirt had slid over some 500 feet of the road and into the South Fork of the Clearwater River.
An elevated road that was created to allow cleanup crews to access both sides of the slide area was removed last week.
The road officially reopened to traffic without any lane restrictions at the end of last month.
The cost of the cleanup totaled about $3.5 million in federal emergency relief refunds.
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Information from: KBOI-TV, http://www.kboi2.com
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