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CLOSURE PLANNED WORK CONTINUES ON A.V. FREEWAY.


Byline: Daily News

AGUA DULCE Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations:

In Mexico:
  • Agua Dulce, Veracruz
In the United States:
  • Agua Dulce, California
  • Agua Dulce, El Paso County, Texas
  • Agua Dulce, Nueces County, Texas
 -- Caltrans will close the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley.  in both directions early Sunday at Escondido Canyon Road as it continues construction work aimed at stopping rockslides.

The southbound side of the freeway will be closed to traffic from 4 to 9 a.m. The northbound freeway will be closed from 5 to 9 a.m.

The closures are expected to recur every Sunday for about three months, Caltrans officials said.

Closure and detour information will be posted on electronic message signs to direct motorists along Escondido Canyon and Agua Dulce Canyon roads. California Highway Patrol highway patrol
n.
A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways.
 officers will help direct traffic.

The closure is in relation to a $12.6 million slope stabilization project along the freeway between Soledad Canyon Soledad Canyon is a long narrow canyon / valley located in Los Angeles County, California between the cities of Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Soledad Canyon contains the localities of Vincent, Acton, Ravenna, and Agua Dulce.  Road in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country,  and Escondido Canyon Road.

Workers are cutting back the rocky slopes that border the freeway where it cuts through hills and installing retention systems using cable net or wire mesh.

Estimated to be completed in spring 2008, the project will reduce rock falling onto the freeway shoulders, Caltrans officials said.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jul 8, 2006
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