NDOT installs steel mesh along Mt. Rose Highway
By Landon Miller, KTVN-TV
It is normal to see cars along the Mt. Rose Highway, but not a helicopter. This week, Nevada Department of Transportation is using one to help in road construction near the summit.
Being installed along the steep terrain are 9,500 square yards of steel mesh.
“They are actually picking up individual strands of this wire mesh slope covering that they are going to fly and place on the slope,” said Meg Ragonese with NDOT.
Crews on the ground secure the mesh to the hillside and the process is repeated. It’s mesh that NDOT crews say will prevent rocks from falling onto the highway below.
