Landslides on Constanza highway

[NewsWhore]

Drivers going or coming from Constanza are being diverted through Jarabacoa due to landslides on the new, refurbished highway between Casabito and Constanza. Cleanup brigades have been working since Saturday to clear away the rocks and earth that slid down the mountainside after the recent rains. Only a year and five months since the highway was re-opened, the roadway continues to be blocked from time to time according to Hoy newspaper. Workers from Norberto Odebrecht, the construction company that rebuilt the highway, said that the landslide occurred at kilometer 4.5 of the highway. They said that they expect to stabilize the mountainside with some concrete and steel-mesh screening, as they have done at other points of the mountain road. Hoy reporters traveled along the 51 kilometers of the highway and found it to be in good condition, but they also found rocks and other debris along some stretches.

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