Summing up, because the state (state highway must be maintained by the state, right?) won't budget for maintenance of the water drain culverts, this one clogged up, and now cost about 12 million dollars to rebuild, delaying traffic for 5 or 6 months.
Seems obvious to me that a a couple hundred dollars of labor semi annually, or quarterly, would have prevented this.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-26/highway-1-reopen-summer-big-sur
While you may well be right about that, and probably are in many cases, I heard that the problem here was fairly sudden, and caused by debris from the forest fires. Which is not to say that it's not someone's fault, but maybe not so directly.
ReplyDeletethe drain pipe was clogged up from simple neglect, as road depts don't do preventative clearing of drainpipes, culverts and under bridges.. then one rain happens, in a fire destroyed area, pushing a flash flood into a clogged drain, and then the water has to find another way downhill, and creates a problem like this.
DeleteThe drain they show in the photo had been doing a good job for decades, but gradually was being filled with sediment, stones, branches... but never getting some attention until they fail.
Then the damage is double digit millions, and months of road closure
The failure was a direct result of the Dolan fire burning 125,000 acres in 2020. The slide was caused after 16 inches of rain that fell , breaking a 150 ft section of the hillside away. The debris blocked then overwhelmed the culvert. No culvert, clean or filled, would have stopped the damage. Just another example of people thinking that their opinions are more important than facts
ReplyDeleteyou have a peculiar way of making acquaintances... I haven't implied that my "opinions are more important than facts"
DeleteNeither have I claimed that I'm the fucking encyclopedia, or CBS news, and I don't research every to the nth degree.
How about you take your attitude and piss off?
After all you had to say, you missed one factor, and that is that your message doesn't mach your words, as in YOUR OPINION no culvert, clean or filled, would have stopped the damage.
Fucking hypocrit
Next time you head out on your lecture circuit, check your script and attitude at the fucking door and you'll eat less crow.
Go talk shit somewhere else, they need ego driven assholes out there somewhere, obviously I've already filled the quota here