Large Slipout Devours Hwy 3
A giant sinkhole slipout has bitten a chunk out of Hwy 3. The road is closed with now estimated time of reopening. Caltrans posted on the following photos and information on their Facebook page this morning.
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“No” estimated time of reopening?
Ah another pic for the “nature bats last” folder
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This is a landslide, not a sinkhole.
I DON’T GET IT SAME THING HAPPENED IN BROOKINGS AND THE CALLED IT A SINK HOLE NOT !!!!!!!!!!! LANDSLIDE FOR SURE …
Some people troll around the internet just trying to Flying mistakes that other people make makes him feel better just smile and go on you’re good
I think it’s a sink hole. If it were a landslide wouldn’t there be debris coming down the hill?
If the mud landed on top of the ground it’s a ‘slide’. If in landed under the surface it’s a ‘sink hole’. I think that this is a slide. However, the salient point is “devours hwy 3”. Incredibly and undeniably true.
Landlord is working that problem, says it’s a slide.
It looks like it is just south of trinity damn Blvd. …. so folks can get to 299 via lewiston (from Coffee creek and Trinity center). Any further north and the only route is out to I5 through seasonally available routes.
It looks like a slip out. A sink hole should be contained by the unsunk earth around it, if that makes any sense. A landslide, as pointed out, should come down the mountain across the road. But whatever it is, the road is certainly closed. Here’s hoping no drunk in the dark and fog doesn’t stop. We had a slip out on the Alderpoint road several years ago and a man did drive right into it – about a 20′ drop as I recall it. I believe he survived. That’s today’s Southern Humboldt roads history trivia.
So the water board and county tells us to fix our roads which are fine but here is a prime example of the shotty engineering they have going on themselves, …not to mention all that dirt is going to go down the creek into the river and cover up some salmon eggs,..
obviously you are clueless to the type of terrain, soil type and weather of the Northwestern part of the state. Any half witted engineer would tell you probably not the best place to have a road. It would most likely exceed a billion dollars to engineer and construct this road right. Better get growin’.
I also object to the term sink hole. Geomorphologists have precise vocabulary to describe the variety of mass wasting events. Slide, slip out, fill failure, inner gorge landslide, slump, flow, the classification goes on; call it anything but sinkhole.
There are tension cracks in this 2012 google maps image:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8269278,-122.8882585,3a,75y,295.24h,77.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seQ0qz6pm-2xRJCrHqqjjxg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en-US
Looks like the slide is in Slate Creek, which is captured by Trinity Reservoir.
Possible detour via Slate Creek Road to Buckeye Ridge to Trinity Dam Blvd.
good eye beel. pretty funny that there is a car going the other way there too. I’m suprised it lasted that long. Go earth! Hopefully though no one found it out the “hard way” that looks like a blind corner coming down the hill.
I requested more information on the correct terminology yesterday from Caltrans District 2. I haven’t yet received it.
I love how responsive you are to comments. Thank you for being so thorough.
Here’s the message on the Cal Trans road conditions web site http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi:
(They call this a slip-out)
SR 3
[IN THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA]
IS CLOSED FROM 10 MI NORTH OF WEAVERVILLE TO 18 MI SOUTH OF TRINITY CENTER
(TRINITY CO) – DUE TO A SLIP-OUT – MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE AN ALTERNATE
ROUTE
Thank you. I updated with the corrected terminology.
In general sinkholes do not happen on hill slopes. It would be nice to see a few more pictures of the slide to determine which type of slide occurred. Obviously it is the top of the slide. @M.Savage’s logic is pretty ridiculous.
Please fix it ASAP! We want to go to Ripple Creek Cabins !!!!
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