Highway 76 closed by early Tuesday morning rock slide ...

Another quick, heavy dose of approximately an inch of rain on already saturated ground in the very early morning hours of Tuesday, September 13 resulted in a pair of large boulders pictured above breaking loose from the hillside along State Highway 76 just north of Marquette and falling on to the highway, bringing trees and other debris along with them. Crews were at work in those very early morning hours Tuesday cleaning up the rock slide, including having to jackhammer the two large boulders in order to move them off the roadway. Highway 76 was completely closed to traffic during those early morning hours and limited to single lane traffic for a good portion of Tuesday while clean-up and maintenance efforts continued. Photo by the Iowa Department of Transportation.