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April 14, 2015

Trucks take turns on Dalton Highway

  • The road grade is scheduled to be raised 7 feet in a construction project this summer, but recent flooding turned it into an ice sheet.
    • By DAN JOLING
    Associated Press

    ANCHORAGE — Alaska's rugged Dalton Highway reopened Sunday to limited traffic with 30 northbound trucks making the first crossing in a week to resupply Alaska North Slope oil fields.

    A 6-mile stretch near the northern end of the road just south of Deadhorse had been impassible for a week because of unprecedented overflow from the Sagavanirktok River, commonly referred to as the Sag River, which runs parallel to the highway and the trans-Alaska pipeline.


     
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