State highway officials have finally finished work on the Conowingo Dam after a tanker truck crash in late October.
A tanker truck crashed in the early morning hours of Oct. 27 on the Cecil County side of the dam, leaving the road closed because of a fuel spill and slippery conditions, even after the Maryland Department of the Environment completed its own clean-up efforts, according to State Highway spokesman David Buck.
The State Highway Administration later discovered that approximately 100 feet of the road was starting to deteriorate after the fuel spill, Buck added in an e-mail. The road needed to be repaired by winter, he wrote, and the repairs were made Monday.
Route 1 was closed at 7:30 a.m. Monday for SHA to mill off two inches of asphalt, put down new material and re-stripe the road's lane lines, Buck wrote, adding that all lanes were open by 5 p.m. the same day.
The costs of resurfacing, according to Buck, will be "charged to the original crash."