The Selway River Road was blocked by a rock slide this morning and remains closed for the time being.
Dan Fitting, supervisor of the Kidder-Harris Highway District, said the blockage happened about a mile up the Selway River Road from U.S. Highway 12. The slide is near Three Rivers Resort. Fitting said the hillside was still moving when he left the location and crews are sitting tight right now. Fitting said his crew is currently looking at ways to evacuate any residents or others who may be trapped on the other side of the rock slide.
Fitting added that he may try to get some emergency funds from the Local Highway Technical Assistance Council, which provides technical services to state and local highway departments, to make some long-term repairs to the rock slide site. (Lewiston Tribune)
