| Date: | Tuesday, January 9, 2024 |
| District: | 05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties |
| Contact: | Kevin Drabinski or Jim Shivers |
| Phone: | (805) 549-3138 or (805) 549-3237 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING FOR LIMEKILN CREEK BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT SET FOR WEDNESDAY JAN. 17
MONTEREY COUNTY – The public is invited to attend a virtual public meeting regarding the Limekiln Creek Bridge Replacement Project. This virtual open house will discuss such topics as:
· Environmental Studies and Documents
· Resource Agency Coordination
· Aesthetic Effects
· Biological Effects
· Coastal Zone Compliance
· Environmental Documents for Public Comment
The Virtual Public Meeting to discuss this project will take place on Wednesday Jan. 17, from 5:30 to 7 pm.
The link to attend this meeting may be found at https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-5/district-5-current-projects/05-1f510
The link to this meeting may also be found by scanning the QR Code on the attached flyer.
Caltrans proposes to replace the existing concrete Limekiln Creek Bridge in Monterey County on Highway 1 near Lucia. Within the limits of the proposed project, Highway 1 is a two-lane undivided highway with two 10- to 12-foot lanes and 0- to 4-foot non-standard shoulders. The proposed project lies exclusively within the Limekiln State Park property. The entrance to Limekiln State Park is directly off the highway at the southern abutment of the bridge. There is also access to the beach from Limekiln State Park underneath the Limekiln Creek Bridge. The existing bridge consists of eight piers and two abutments and is approximately 580 feet long and experiencing deterioration.
For more information about this project or the meeting, please contact Matt Fowler, Senior Environmental Planner, at 805-779-0793 or by email at matt.c.fowler@dot.ca.gov.
For all other state highway matters in the area, please contact the District 5 Public Information Office at info-d5@dot.ca.gov or by phone at 805-549-3138.
Road information and updates can also be found on Caltrans District 5 Social Media platforms: Twitter at: @CaltransD5, Facebook at: Caltrans Central Coast (District 5) and Instagram at: Caltrans_D5.
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Engineers are caught between a rock and a hard place. "Balanced cut and fill" is almost THE LAW, but it ain't necessarily always so good an idea because embankments of unconsolidated materials have a nasty habit, in some (many) contexts, of failing to meet the specifications of the soils report recommendations after construction. The a** saving grace is that it take a long, long time for most degradation processes to result in catastrophic failure. Bridges are better, but the battered engineering troops on the front lines have a rough time "selling" them to the suits who depend upon lower bottom-lines for career advancement. Anyway, by the time most failures occur, everybody involved has made retirement or exited the scene altogether. And bridges, depending upon their design and context (countless variables), have their own useful lives. Let their grandchildren take care of it.
Even the highly questionable Rat Creek free-standing embankment lasted for almost a hundred years, and some Roman structures still stand--more or less.
But as the pressure for expediency bloats bigger and bigger, it appears that the useful lives of some fill embankments are beginning to collapse during the reigns of their creators.
Perplexing, eh?
i might be mistaken, actually probably am, but I believe CalTrans has been trying to salvage that bridge for a while. apparently the seawater/saltwater capillary attraction has degraded the steel interior to the structure , as RUST expands and eventually cracks the concrete, thus losing structural integrity. remember that big project 'they' did with generator and cables etc for such a long while ? as I understand that was a clever/scientific attempt to roll back the rust. I have done that on rusted tools/metal before, worked for me. I guess it didn't work for the bridge, sadly.
but hey ! fist bump to CalTrans for doing a generally wonderful job of making a whack-job road work most of the time ! props !
highway needs a bridge there, do it. tho we need BATHROOMS along the highway too, nudge nudge, do that as well, please..