Freeway 97 north of Summerland might be quickly closed in each instructions on Tuesday.
The deliberate closure will run from 11 a.m. till 1 p.m. close to the location of a rockslide that came about on Aug. 28 between Callan Street and Okanagan Lake Provincial Park, during which roughly 3,000 cubic metres of rock and particles got here tumbling down onto Freeway 97.
Throughout the closure, crews might be finishing up rock blasting work. As soon as the blasting is completed and security assessments are made, the freeway will reopen to 2 lanes of visitors.
On Monday, Oct. 30, the stretch of freeway was additionally closed for 2 hours, to permit crews to take away roughly 950 cubic metres of particles from the location.
The Ministry of Transportation says further blasting might be carried out in the course of the month of November.
“After the slide mass is eliminated, stabilization operations, which can embrace the set up of bolts and rock anchors, might be carried out all through the winter,” the ministry stated.