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Darin Boville
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Click on the photo to see our tour of the repair site.
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We went up on Devil’s Slide Thursday afternoon to take a tour of the repair site with Caltrans geologist Grant Wilcox.
In the tour, Grant tells us how the Devil’s Slide landslide structure, how the roadbed has dropped historically and how it dropped this winter, what Caltrans has done to reduce the risks from rockslides, how the repair is designed and how it’s supposed to work, alternate repairs considered by Caltrans (including dewatering), and worst case scenarios, including whether the repair would survive another winter like the last one.
Great video. Many thanks to Darin and Barry for actually bringing us out to the construction site to hear an onsite briefing by the CalTrans geologist. I’m not sure if others take this kind reporting for granted or not, but I sure don’t. Coastsider.com provides a real-time perspective on issues that the HMB Review can’t even dream of.