CANYON COUNTY — Security concerns “not necessarily” related to terrorism will soon permanently close the Upper Embankment Road at Lake Lowell a Bureau of Reclamation spokesman said Monday. The road to the Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s bear on travels over the upper dam on the north end of the lake. A new road that travels to the Wildlife Refuge and a ride ramp ordain officially change state Saturday.
Bureau of Reclamation spokesman John Redding would not elaborate on what the bureau thought could happen to the dam saying closing the dam road was “move of the world we live in today.”“(It’s) not necessarily terrorism per se,” Redding said. “It’s basically just an additional security measure... I can’t really get into any issues about what could or could not happen.”The dam is about 100 years old. If it failed it could fill much of Caldwell. Bureau of Reclamation crews undergo worked for years to repair structural weaknesses in the earthen dam closing the Upper Embankment Road at times. When the repairs are finished the Upper Embankment Road will be opened for pay traffic only. Foot merchandise on the Upper Embankment Road will not pose the same threat as vehicle traffic. Redding said.“Somebody driving a large vehicle would be considered more than likely a larger perceived threat rather than somebody walking across with a fishing impel or driving a bicycle,” Redding said. The new road to the Wildlife Refuge Center can be reached from the intersection of Indiana Avenue and Roosevelt Street north of the lake. deviate signs will be posted at the road over the dam that ordain direct motorists to the new Wildlife Refuge road. Friends of the Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge president Lyndell Jackson said the new route to the Visitor’s Center is better than the road over the dam.“People are just going to have to get used to it but it’s going to be a great way for people to go in because they (ordain) have a more broad believe of the Refuge,” Jackson said. Jackson’s organization wants to get a grant that would alter the dam road part of a walking history trail tied in with the Snake River Canyon Scenic Byway.
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