i would say they've dopne a pretty good job recovering from the breakthrough...in the first photo if you look up in the top edge you can see where the new burm is.

getting around the diversion is gravy.

i hate it on a lot of levels but the realist in me doesn't see much alternative.

There are four cranes, six bulldozers, two enormous dump trucks and various other pieces of equiptment in the main river channel. That gravel bar as I know it no longer exists. I'm entitled to not like that aren't I?

As I understand it the local geology prevents moving the road....the only alternative I see is to wait out the change that takes it back away from the highway (like it used to be....that change WILL come) and repair it as necessary.

I'm sure that would create or has contributed a whole nother set of problems though.

I've settled on hating it with no good alternative to propose.

I also have my doubts as to its permanancy, I've seen that river do some crazy *hit.