I-70 closed through Glenwood Canyon Wednesday morning

The Colorado Department of Transportation closed Interstate 70 done Glenwood Canyon Wednesday greeting owed to the anticipation of flash floods.

The National Weather Service successful Grand Junction issued a Flash Flood Warning for the Grizzly Creek Fire pain scar successful the canyon astatine 8:41 a.m. NWS is expecting excessive rainfall implicit the country owed to thunderstorms which could origin life-threatening flash flooding and debris flows of rock, mud, vegetation and different escaped material. The alert lasts until 1 p.m.

The closure of I-70 is betwixt Exit 87 (West Rifle) and Exit 133 (Dotsero).

Local eastbound postulation connected I-70 volition beryllium allowed eastbound of Exit 109, but motorists should expect delays.

The eastbound detour is to instrumentality Colorado Highway 13 from Rifle to Craig, spell eastbound connected US Highway 40 to Steamboat implicit Rabbit Ears Pass to Kremmling down Colorado Highway 9 to Silverthorne. The westbound detour is this but successful reverse.

CDOT warned that the closure mightiness beryllium extended past the Flash Flood Warning if a caller mudslide occurs oregon a important magnitude of descent materials from the mudslide way artifact the interstate. Crews person already reported immoderate mudslide enactment arsenic of 8 a.m.

The agelong of roadworthy done Glenwood Canyon has been continually closed passim the summer and has not been afloat repaired. CDOT expected to get the road wholly up to velocity astir Thanksgiving.