ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) — Months after shutting down a bridge over the Rio Grande, NMDOT says it's getting closer to some of the first fixes.

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State road crews shut down Española's historic Oñate bridge in June. It opened in 1941, but in 2019, NMDOT found the riverbed was eroding around one of the support piers - a problem that has only continued. Engineers recently told lawmakers they've finished a first report on the bridge, and wil

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