{"id":338478,"date":"2026-06-16T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338478\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:20:25","slug":"el-paso-county-dealing-with-second-muddy-gravel-road-situation-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338478\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County dealing with second muddy gravel road situation in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Cooper Grove has become the second gravel road in Black Forest since 2024 to have issues with being muddy and slippery in wet weather. <\/p>\n

Neighbors on the road, which is at the intersection of Black Forest Road and just south of the Douglas County line, contacted KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior about the matter.<\/p>\n

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They say the problem began when the county sprayed what they believe was a chemical on the road, with no explanation of what it was or why it was applied.<\/p>\n

Since then, neighbors said that during wet weather, at least three vehicles slid off the road, became stuck, and had to be towed.<\/p>\n

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Neighbors said that they’ve received an unsatisfactory response from county officials.<\/p>\n

The Road Warrior spoke with a county representative who explained that it was water, not a chemical, that crews sprayed while applying new gravel on the road last fall.<\/p>\n

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After receiving three complaints from residents about the road’s condition, the county began to evaluate it and even briefly considered closing it.<\/p>\n

The county continues to evaluate the road’s condition to determine a possible solution.<\/p>\n

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As for paving the road with asphalt, the county said that it isn’t feasible because the road doesn’t have enough traffic.<\/p>\n

Paving, however, was the solution for a similar road issue last year — on Glider Loop, just south of Black Forest.<\/p>\n

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Neighbors complained that the road was muddy and slick after crews applied new gravel; officials couldn’t determine why, other than to say that some gravel roads across the county respond differently to moisture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Cooper Grove has become the second gravel road in Black Forest since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[16974,120653,138,1060,140,139,120654,96656],"class_list":["post-338478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-black-forest","tag-cooper-grove","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-krdo-13s-the-road-warrior","tag-wet-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}