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| A boulder the size of a small house came crashing down onto Blackburn Church Road over the weekend, completely blocking the roadway. The road will be closed for several weeks while crews work on removal of the rock. |
Over the weekend, several hundred tons of rock fell from the side of a bluff, crashing into the roadway and creating an obstruction to through-traffic just past Travis Cemetery Road about four miles off Ky. 120. The sandstone rock caused several thousand dollars of damage to the roadway, creating a divot several feet deep in the road bed.
Crittenden County Judge-Executive Perry Newcom said removal will likely cost thousands of dollars and should begin sometime after Christmas. The county is investigating use of a jackhammer attachment on a trackhoe to break up the rock.
