Hwy 101 to Open Monday Evening, Says Caltrans
As long as the weather cooperates, and no new major rockfall occurs, one lane of U.S. 101 will reopen Monday at 6 PM!
Work went well today, and by 5 PM most of the southbound lane road surface had been cleared of debris. Tonight, the rest of the lane will be cleared, and work will begin to reinstall the first of two rockfall barriers. This first barrier must be in place for safety before traffic is allowed through, and traffic should be open with one-way traffic control by 6 PM.
Once traffic is flowing work will transition to stabilization and reopening the second lane for two-way traffic. This may take 2-3 months, and delays may increase significantly when there is activity to remove unstable material from the hillside. We will work with our contractor to keep the delays as short as possible, but they may extend to an hour or more at times. We will provide more details as the work progresses.
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Bet the liberals wouldn’t mind them pushing all that material into the river to get their precious freeway back.
Wouldn’t the liberals prefer to keep the river clean?
The slide would be in the river just like mother nature intended except the man made road stopped it, I say let’s give mother nature a hand and push it on its way….
The confusion hill slide continues into the eel like it always did naturally
Amen
Thank you. I’m a liberal and I am in favor of keeping the fish and our environment alive and healthy.
Oh frikin balloney!!!
Bet the conservatives are planning on destroying the river to make a few bucks.
You reminded me of this story from 2011 (about a landslide into the middle fork):
https://kymkemp.com/2011/11/15/ancient-lake-on-the-eel-river/
“Science magazines are abuzz with the news that there was a 30 mile lake on the upper reaches of the Eel River around 20,000 years ago. It was caused by an enormous landslide. The lake occurred East of Harris and is estimated to have lasted around 1,000 years.”…
That’s cool, too bad it’s not still there!
Thank you Ghilotti bros and Mendocino Construction for doing and outstanding job get this done
Ghilotti Construction. Ghilotti Brothers is a different company and not involved.
Yahoo! I’m going to be free to run again. At least until the next slide. Hello Peg House!
Global warming will close that road again this week.
According to 1-800-gas-road 101 is still closed Kym. I need to plan a trip to Ukiah, can I get there via 101?
You can now! Road is open. 101 Is Open! https://kymkemp.com/2017/04/24/101-is-open-traffic-is-moving-through-the-slide-area/
How bout put a tunnel let it slide over it cheaper than another bridge
FYI : the material from the Northend of the slide was trucked to the Old Piercy Mill site .
That’s like a 12 mile roundtrip burning 1000s of gallons of fuel overall.
I vote for pushing the next huge slide over the edge.
Oh boy , ….. Piercy will get the mail again .