Emcon Services has advised a second and unplanned round of avalanche-control work is happening Friday until 5:30 p.m. along Highway 1 in the Three Valley Gap, a continuation of the work B.C.'s Ministry of Transportation and Transit (MOTT) carried out last night.
This has closed a 15-kilometre stretch west of Revelstoke, between Griffin Lake Avalanche Gate and Clanwilliam Bridge, Ecmon said on X (formerly Twitter).
Parks Canada will later perform separate avalanche-control work east between Revelstoke and Golden, proposed for 9 p.m. Friday until 4 a.m. Saturday with a Highway 1 closure for 142 kilometres between Revelstoke's Townley Street and Golden's 14th Street North and no detour available, according to Kieran Lee Kam of MOTT's district operations.
"Things are kind of fluid with the weather right now, as you can probably tell," he noted.
The ministry's work in the Three Valley Gap from 4 to 6 a.m. Friday, due to increasing avalanche risk amid heavy snowfall, was moved earlier to between 11 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday, Emcon's district operations manager Kody Moncrief informed Black Press Media.
Emcon will provide further updates at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
You can report road hazards to Emcon 24-7 at 1-866-353-3136, follow Emcon on Facebook for updates at facebook.com/emconservices.inc, and check DriveBC for planned and live road closures at drivebc.ca.
More to come.
