Collaborative Mitigation

and Section 106:

The Georgetown Rock Fall

Projects Statewide Conference on

Heritage

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

July 17, 2012

Rock fall structures

Georgetown, Colorado

circa 1885 2011

Section 106 Consultation

• 7 consulting

parties, including

SHPO

• Controversial

corridor

• Rock fall

structures create

adverse effect

based on visual

change

• Programmatic

Agreement signed

The Takeaway

• Mitigation doesn’t

have a specific

price tag

• Mitigation doesn’t

have to sit on a

library shelf

• Mitigation should

have a

preservation

benefit

• It doesn’t hurt to

ask

Lisa SchochColorado Department of Transportationlisa.schoch@dot.state.co.us303-512-4258