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40-ton rock falls on highway Thursday morning 5 miles north of N.M.-Colorado line.
A 40-ton boulder that fell on northbound U.S. 550 Thursday morning south of Durango and about 5 miles north of the Colorado-New Mexico border stalled traffic for much of the day, the Farmington Daily Times reported. The bus-sized boulder was finally cleared just after 5 p.m., Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Nancy Shanks told the Daily Times. No one was injured and no vehicles were struck, the paper reported. Colorado transportation crews drilled the sandstone boulder, placing explosives inside the rock in order to reduce it to pieces that could be hauled away, the Daily Times said. The boulder was reported to be approximately 18 feet long, 15 feet high and about 15 feet wide, according to the Daily Times. Crews had two of the three lanes open by midday Thursday, and traffic moved slowly but steadily in both directions until debris was cleared and the highway was reopened, the paper said.
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