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News Alert: Water Break On Trinity Drive

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COUNTY News:

Crews with the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities have responded at about 11:30 a.m. today to a water break on Trinity Drive, west of 20 Street and across from Ashley Pond Park.

Mobilization of traffic control devices and excavation equipment was expected to occur around noon.

East bound traffic will be affected. For the safety of the crews and public, motorists are advised to slow down and obey traffic signs.

It is unknown at this time if water services will need to be temporarily turned off to customers when crews initiate repairs. The estimated time that repairs will be completed Read More

News Alert: Another Water Break In White Rock

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News Alert:

Water crews with the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities are responding today to a another water break in White Rock.

The break is on Rover Boulevard between N.M. 4 and Meadow Lane. Crews will be working in the middle of the road dropping the center lane north of Meadow to repair the water distribution line.

Motorists are asked to obey the speed limit and traffic control devices. It was not necessary to shut off water services for customers. They are backfilling and cleaning up the site. Crews estimate that by 5 p.m. they will complerte the work.

Los Alamos has experienced Read More

Repair Work Completed On NM 4 Water Main Break

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County crews on the job completing repairs to a water main break this afternoon on N.M. 4. The work is done but the cones will remain in place until the soil dries. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Scene this afternoon of County crews completing repairs to a water main break on N.M. 4. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News:

Water crews with the Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities have finished repairing a water main break on N.M. 4 approximately one mile south of East Jemez Road (Truck Route).

Orange cones remain around the area where the break occurred on the east Read More

Tsikumu Village Improvements Project Begins April 1

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COUNTY News:

Construction activities begin Monday, April 1 on the Tsikumu Village Improvements Project in Los Alamos. Albuquerque Asphalt Inc. will conduct the work.

Proposed improvements include:

  • mill existing asphalt pavement surface;
  • overlay with new asphalt; and
  • concrete valley gutters.

Proposed improvements also include limited concrete replacement (approximately 5 percent) of sidewalks, valley gutters, curb and gutter, fillets, drive pads and ADA curb ramps at designated locations on the following streets:

  • Sioux;
  • Cheyenne;
  • Seminole;
  • Iroquois;
  • Yuma; and
  • Ute.

Residents Read More

News Alert: Second Water Break On NM 4

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Map depicting water break location. Courtesy/DPU

COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities is reporting this morning that another water break has occurred on N.M. 4 approximately 1 mile south of East Jemez Road (Truck Route).

DPU water crews are working in the shoulder on the east side of the road. Traffic traveling north toward N.M. 502 are encouraged to slow down near the construction footprint.

DPU said that water service to the White Rock community will not be impacted.

Crews estimate that repairs will be completed by 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. today. Read More

New Mexico State Police Conducting Sobriety Checkpoints; Saturation Patrols Across State In April

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NMSP News:

STATEWIDE – New Mexico State Police (NMSP) will be conducting sobriety checkpoints; saturation patrols and registration, insurance and driver’s license checkpoints during the month of April in all counties across the state.

NMSP is bringing awareness to these events in an effort to reduce alcohol related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising. These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving.

Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if every driver had the courage to make the right Read More

NMDOT Discusses NM 502 Project At Public Meeting

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Members of the public attend the NMDOT meeting on the N.M. 502 roadway reconstruction project Wednesday in Fuller Lodge. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Souder, Miller & Assoc. and Star Paving Consultant Designer for NMDOT Matthew Nighbert discusses the project. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

 
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Drivers, get ready. Orange traffic cones, construction workers in neon-colored vests and detours are going to be common features during a road project spanning Knecht Street to Tewa Loop near East Read More

Fatal Rollover Crash On I-25 In Santa Fe County

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NMSP News:
 
SANTA FE ― At about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, the New Mexico State Police investigated a fatal rollover crash on Interstate 25 around mile post 277, near Santa Fe.
 
The initial investigation indicated that a Ford Expedition occupied by five individuals was traveling north on Interstate 25 towing a Dodge Pickup on a flatbed trailer.
 
For reasons still under investigation the Expedition appears to have lost control, overcorrected and then rolled.
 
A middle row passenger in the Expedition, Zenaida Lopez, 68, of Kansas City, Kan., was ejected and suffered fatal
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