Highway 22 slide-out to cost $500K

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It will cost about $500,000 to move extra dirt to fix a slide-out along a Highway 22 construction zone north of Killdeer, North Dakota Department of Transportation Dickinson District Office Assistant District Engineer Rob Rayhorn said Thursday afternoon.

“The dirt sunk a little bit and is sliding down the deep ravines slowly,” he said.

Though he did not know when the slide happened, Rayhorn said it has “minor impact.”

The area is about 17 miles north of Killdeer.

“It happened in a construction project so it’s the same bit of traffic controls up there,” Rayhorn said. “We just modified the plans and kept working.”

Work will be done next year regardless of the slide, he said, adding the public will be on driving on pavement, not gravel, this winter despite the setback.

The slide did not occur in an area that washed out in the spring due to wet conditions, he said.

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