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Hwy. 50 Re-opens After Crews Blast Stone Slab

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Dec 22, 2009 8:45 am US/Pacific

Hwy. 50 Re-opens After Crews Blast Stone Slab

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POLLOCK PINES (CBS13) ― Highway 50 was stopped Tuesday morning near Pollock Pines so Caltrans could blow apart a boulder threatening to fall onto the road.

The boulder was exposed Sunday, about six miles east of Pollock Pines, after a nearby rockslide sent rocks onto the road. The agency first hired a tow company to pull the huge slab down, but turned to dynamite when that didn't work.

Today's explosion was triggered at around 8 a.m., moving a large chunk of the boulder down the slope and next to barriers along the shoulder of the road. Caltrans re-opened the road, only to close it again at around noon to blow up some fragments still too large to move.

"It was necessary. We'd rather do it now than have Mother Nature do it for us and then we'd have to react to it," said Rochelle Jenkins, Caltrans spokesperson. "We'd rather be proactive."

The cleanup took a matter of minutes.

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