VAIL — The last time the so-called “Basin of Last Resort” was cleaned, the cost came in at more than $1 million. The year was 2009. Nine years later, the Colorado Department of Transportation is ...

The arrival of snow means traffic on Interstate 70 over Vail Pass bustles with skiers and visitors to and from the Front Range, with cars braving storms and bumper-to-bumper traffic in search of a ...

VAIL – Traction sand from Interstate 70 may be smothering insects and harming trout in our post-card streams, but all that sand may have allowed wetlands to grow in Black Gore Creek.And if those ...

EAGLE COUNTY ” More than 13,200 tons of river-clogging traction sand was cleaned-up along Interstate 70 this year on Vail Pass, between East Vail and Shrine Pass. That’s around double the amount of ...

VAIL – A project to remove tons of traction sand that washed into a high-country stream from Interstate 70 has been delayed because the sand may have helped wetlands grow.The state highway department ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an economical and sensible means of collecting and reusing accumulated sand used to create traction on roads in mountainous areas," said ...