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Material ordered for sinkhole repair

A spot on Highway 97 where a sinkhole emerged will remain single-lane alternating for some time yet.
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 A spot on Highway 97 where a sinkhole emerged will remain single-lane alternating for some time yet.

Materials have been ordered and repair work should start in about a week at the location 22 kilometres south of Bear Lake, a Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure spokesperson said Friday.

"Depending on weather conditions, repairs should take about a week to complete and single lane alternating traffic will continue during that time," Ryan Jabs said in an e-mail.

Initially, about six metres deep before some remediation work was carried out, the sinkhole was created Wednesday when a culvert separated in the southbound lane.