FAIRMONT, W.Va. — A section of U.S. Route 250 in Marion County closed by a landslide was scheduled to re-open to traffic Tuesday afternoon.
Division of Highways maintenance forces and Grant Coal Company, the adjacent property owner, partnered to stabilize the hillside between Holbert Road and Mary Lou Retton Drive.
Allegheny Power and their contractor also assisted in removing overhanging trees.
The road had been closed on Jan.3 after the Highway Division’s geotechnical unit surveyed the site and found unstable rock and large trees on the hillside.