Friday, April 27, 2018: Roper Construction began cleaning up the site and started backfilling the Gabion Baskets with top soil. Kimo Construction finished the construction of Gabion Baskets and is preparing to de-mobilize.

Friday, April 6, 2018: Roper Construction completed the footings and bedding on the southeast side of the river, and Kimo Construction began placement of the baskets on the southeast side of the river.

Friday, March 30, 2018:  GOOD FRIDAY.

Monday, April 2, 2018:  Roper Construction brought in a second excavator with a Teledyne to break up large boulders that have been encountered on the southeast footings for the Gabion baskets.  Kimo Construction continued to work on the construction of the northwest Gabion Baskets.

Friday, February 16, 2018: Heavy rains event prevented work as the river running at 80 CFS in the morning (35,907 GPM), and by the afternoon it was up to 200 CFS (89,767 GPM).

Friday, February 9, 2018: Roper Construction continued to haul off overburden to the Grindstone site to run through the grizzly and separate rock. The contractor is bringing a small excavator with Teledyne to complete rock removal at the north headwall, and George Esqueda from Zia Engineering was on-site doing inspections.

Crews completed the removal of both head walls and continued hauling off waste material as efforts continued to break-up larger pieces of concrete around the structure.

Roper Construction began work on the Main Road Bridge on Monday, January 22, 2018, with the actual road closure occurring at 8:00 AM. The detour route  began evolving with citizen and business owner input as the Village met with the NMDOT to take suggestions for the detour route.

The Main Road Bridge Project is set to kick-off in January 2018. There will be a lot of information coming out over the next few weeks about construction schedules, detour routes, and how to navigate the Upper Canyon during the project. Keep checking this page for updates.

Upper Canyon residents are invited to attend a kick-off meeting about the Main Road No. 1 Bridge Project on February 28th at 1:00 PM at the Upper Canyon Fire Station. Project engineers and Village officials will be on-hand to answer questions. 

The Village will begin work on the Cherokee Interconnect project today as it begins laying pipeline to connect the system to the Alto and Grindstone systems.