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Show Washed out bridge closes canyon road for two weeks State workers out of the Parowan road shed have been making a valiant fight to replace re-place or build a crossing over the swollen Parowan Creek In the mouth of Main Canyon during the past week, In time for the opening of the fishing fish-ing seasn, and they Just made it. The bridge, biggest one in the canyon over the creek, just caved in over a week ago and closed the canyon which up to now this spring was the only one opened to Brian Head Resort. When the bridge went out, it was no surprise sur-prise with the large stream of water, as it has been posted post-ed all winter. At first the road workers tried to by pass the bridge on the downstream side, using a half dozen culverts, but again too much water: it washed the dirt fill away faster than it could be placed on the culverts, cul-verts, and this had to be given giv-en up. A huge flat sided culvert has been near the site for a long time, and it was finally decideJ to cut through the road above the bridge where the creek made a turn and thus straighen the creek, this was finally successful, just in time for the opening morning morn-ing of the fishing season. But this only opened the road too one reservoir, the Yankee. It did open the way to Brian Head. Now let me say It here: the Brian Head bunch hasn't been stymied too much by the disrupted dis-rupted highway. Of course the business took a nose dive but went on. People would drive up to the bridge, park their cars, walk across the undamaged undam-aged side of the bridge, and meet cars from Brian Head for the rest of the way to the resort. They came back the same way. Those living up at the resort had cars or Mends with cars on the Parowan side and were able to do very welL Gasoline presented a bit of a problem, but this was solved five gallons at a time. Let's say here that one group of students 95 of them made the trip to the resort that way for 2 days of meeting and pleasure, they tell us. |