Airports provide a multitude of benefits to the citizens and\nthe visitors of the surrounding communities, especially in the remote regions\nof Colorado. When it comes time to close a runway for construction, or\nrehabilitation, the benefits that an airport provides to its users become\nharder to attain, and in the case of an airport with only one runway, airport\nservices cease to exist at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the summer of 2022, following a year and a half of\npre-planning, the Durango-La Plata County Airport (DRO) took on a challenge,\nthat many doubted could ever be accomplished. The airport would be tasked with\ncompleting a long list of airport projects. This list included milling, and\npaving, of Durango\u2019s sole runway 3\/21. The runway would remain closed during\nthis phase of the project, and the airport would no longer be able to serve its\ncommunity. Durango\u2019s sole runway would be completely closed for 10 full days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With an onsite asphalt plant mobilized, crews were able to\nwork around the clock to reconstruct the entire length of Durango\u2019s 9,200-foot\nrunway. In the end, the goal of getting the best product while also minimizing\nthe impacts on the airport became a reality, and in only 10 days, the airport\u2019s\nrunway was rejuvenated well above the minimum standards. Actually, it was\naward-winning standards according to the Colorado Asphalt Paving Association’s\n“Best In Colorado Award” for airport paving projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only hours after the reopening of Durango\u2019s runway, the\nDurango-La Plata County Airport went back to doing what airports do, and it\ncould be said that one of these things, is saving lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the story of how the Durango-La Plata County Airport overcame every challenge thrown at them during the project. Interviews with those directly involved in the project exemplify how strong partnerships are one of the key elements in the success of airport projects. This link will lead you to the full video on the Division of Aeronautics Playlist.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Airports provide a multitude of benefits to the citizens and the visitors of the surrounding communities, especially in the remote regions of Colorado. When it comes time to close a runway for construction, or rehabilitation, the benefits that an airport provides to its users become harder to attain, and in the case of an airport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26184,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26183\/revisions\/26184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}