The New Mexico Department of Transportation is hosting a public meeting Sept. 28 to discuss two planned rock slide prevention projects near Los Alamos.
The meeting is from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in Fuller Lodge on Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. Officials from the state road agency will be on hand to discuss the safety projects, said William Alexander of the transportation department.
The state agency in late-spring, early summer 2006 plans to install wire mesh retaining devices on areas off NM 4 and NM 502 to minimize or contain rock slides. No blasting is expected and helicopters may be used to complete the work from overhead, Alexander explained.
The work on NM 502 is between milepost 4.7 and 4.9 just east of the Clinton Anderson Memorial obelisk, while the NM 4 work is planned between milepost 56.9 and 57.2, west of Los Alamos Canyon and north of Pajarito Canyon.
The work is expected to take about three weeks to complete, weather permitting, and traffic control measures will be set up to alert motorists to the planned work.
For more information, contact Karen York of Blue Earth Ecological Consultants Inc., a contractor for the project, at 983-2687.
