The second phase of the Cottonwood Hill Project on Highway 97 18 kilometres North of Quesnel begins this summer.
The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure said Enviro-ex Contracting Ltd. was awarded a $12.6 million contract to realign that section of Highway and remove material from the top of the slide.
During construction, travellers may experience single-lane alternating traffic with delays as long as 20 minutes, as well as single-lane traffic in both directions.
The Ministry said this work, aimed to be completed by the summer of 2025, is part of a three-phase project to stabilize the road on the historic landslide site.
Changing weather patterns have hit the Cariboo particularly hard in recent years contributing to hundreds of landslides and road washouts in 2020 and 2021.
The Cottonwood Hill Project is part of the Cariboo Road Recovery Projects, restoring access where feasible, benefiting tens of thousands of people who use these roads and highways.
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