CO 119 into Black Hawk is a winding two-lane highway.

An eclectic partnership of agencies with broadly different agendas is working together on one multi-purpose project that addresses their divergent needs – transportation improvements and related road safety work on CO 119 into Black Hawk that will help start to clean a polluted creek dead from the leftovers of the mining industry and help preserve wildlife.

It’s called the North Clear Creek Restoration Project.

The complete package developed by the North Clear Creek Mitigation Advisory Committee is estimated to cost $82.7 million, and the Colorado Department of Transportation is taking a gamble that it can win a $62.5 million discretionary grant from the federal stimulus program to enable it to do the entire project at once.

The Colorado Department of Transportation will soon begin installing wildlife fencing along a stretch of Highway 82 south of Glenwood Springs that sees a high incidence of wildlife-vehicle collisions, the Aspen Times reports.

The project, to begin Monday, Sept. 14, will include the installation of about 15,869 linear feet of 8-foot-high fence on the west side of the highway, between mile markers 7 and 11, in the Aspen Glen area between Carbondale and Glenwood in Garfield County. It will also complete the fencing — about a mile’s worth — on the east side of the highway along this stretch.