being constructed on Castle Valley Drive is six weeks into the project, with formwork for the upstream and downstream wingwalls taking place today. The old culvert has been demolished and Castle Creek is in its new bed beneath the new corrugated steel structure, but considerable work still needs to be completed before the road reopens.
Slow progress is being made...
in replacing the culvert beneath Castle Valley Drive, now three weeks into the two month-long project. Castle Creek still flows through the existing corrugated steel culvert, now fully exposed, while footings are prepared alongside for the new arch culvert.
Phone and fiber optic utility lines dangle across the excavated work site.
Two Blackhawk helicopters on maneuvers...
over Castle Valley this quiet early morning, landing multiple times on Castleton Road over several hours time, shattering the Sunday morning silence in the valley with tremendous noise and reverberations off canyon walls. No search and rescue is underway, so why all the disruptive commotion?!
UPDATE: Aerial operations have continued each of the last several days. Low and slow, it’s quite annoying.
"Coffee with the Chief" is an instant success...
in our tiny community of Castle Valley, a small, weekly social gathering, the brainchild of the Fire Chief Ron Drake, shown in the red shirt at the far right in the image below. Read all about it in his weekly column: Coffee with the Chief. Great job, Ron!
