*NO MAJOR CONVOYS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK (JULY 17-20)*

HIGHWAY 1 UPDATE – THURSDAY, JULY 13:
State Route 1 in Monterey County continues to be closed from north of Salmon (just south of the Ranger Station (PM 3) to Pfeiffer Canyon (PM 45.5), which is south of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge construction site, with the exception of 10 miles (Gorda to Limekiln State Park) that is accessible only via Nacimiento-Fergusson Road.

REMINDER: travelers CANNOT go all the way on Hwy 1 but local businesses are open on both sides of the closure points at Pfeiffer Canyon and Salmon Creek.

Mud Creek (PM 8.9)
Mud Creek had a major slide on Saturday, May 20, 2017, losing 5 million cubic yards of material. Geotechnical and radar assessments continue at the site it remains impassable.

Paul’s Slide (PM 21.6)
The targeted opening for the road at Paul’s Slide is mid-July (July 15-20). Until then, access through Paul’s Slide continues with the following schedule for local residents and deliveries:

Access times for the morning and evening
Sat-Thursday: 5:30 am to 6 am and 7 pm to 7:30 pm
Friday: 5:30 am –8 am and 6 pm to 7:30 pm

12:00 noon Monday/Wednesday/Friday
A single caravan south and a single caravan north will be allowed. You must be in line by noon! There may be up to a 45-minute delay to clear the road before the opening.

Delivery vehicles (restricted to 30 feet maximum length and 50,000 lbs. maximum weight) can use all access windows shown above.

Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge [PCB] (PM 45.52)
· Steel girders continue to be fabricated in Vallejo, CA and are being sent to Linden, CA (near Stockton) for painting before being trucked to the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge construction site.
· Temporary Tower completion and welding

9 am – there is a tree down on Nacimiento. While the CHP website says SR1 and Nacimiento, that is just the nearest cross street. So it could be anywhere. MoCo Rds come from San Ardo, so it could be a while.

Incident: 00093 Type: Traffic Hazard Location: Nacimiento Fergusson Rd / Sr1 Loc Desc: Lat/Lon: 35.988672 -121.494108
Detail Information
9:15 AM 2 [5] PER A8-040 START CORDS / 1039 MONTY CORDS
9:00 AM 1 [2] TREE DOWN / 1125 1 LN

For those of us who cannot attend, it is nice to finally get the notes from these meetings. Martha sent this to me yesterday.

Highway One Incident
Unified Command, BSVFB/OES.
Bulletin
Monday July 3rd meeting/conference call.

Situation:
3 road closures along Highway One from SLO County line to MM 45. One at Mud CK. approximately MM 8, one at Paul’s slide approximately MM 22 and one at Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge approximately MM 45.

Traffic for residents/deliveries only, ingress and egress is over Nacimiento-Fergusson road through Paul’s slide. See Cal Trans bulletins for times or call 805-549-3138 for further information.

State Parks: Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Partington Cove and the trails on the East side of the highway are closed. Pfeiffer State Park reopened almost all of its campsites and day use areas July 1, 2017. Andrew Molera State Park expects to have a trail to the beach open by July 30, 2017.

The Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge bypass trail opened to the public July 1, 2017. Must have a permit to park in the back country parking, parking for residents/workers only.
For more information call 831-667-2315.

USFS: The forest is closed mainly on the Pine Ridge trail and within the Soberanes fire “footprint”, there are other closures. For more information call 831-385-5434.
(Pfeiffer Beach is closed to everyone)

The Old Coast/County road is closed to vehicle traffic.

Businesses:
All businesses north of the PCB at MM 45 are open.

Businesses that are open south of the PCB are: Deli/Taphouse, Loma Vista gas station, (limited hours) Post Ranch Inn, Nepenthe and the Hawthorne Gallery, (limited hours).

A shuttle service began on July 1, 2017 from Andrew Molera parking lot to the camp store in the back of Pfeiffer Park. Contact Sur Transportation for details, 831-667-5075 or 831-238-1203.

Updates: Monday, July 3 2107.

Cal Trans: Paul’s slide is close to completing the “cut”, mid-July still the target opening date. Close to getting the permit to complete the turnaround at the Post Office. They are not aware of any issues with the south bridge abutment at PCB, will confirm.

State Parks: The opening went well, there was one rescue. OK for bicyclists to carry their bikes across the trail, no need to take the front wheel off.

Shuttle: Went well, approximately a little under 100 riders that came from Molera each day on Saturday and Sunday. Should be able to use a State Parks annual pass to park at Molera free for the shuttle.

Trail: Thanks to Nepenthe for staffing a table at the top of the trail, they counted the people coming up the trail for 4 days. No break down as to residents, campers, but you can deduct the numbers from the shuttle to get an idea. 7/1, 284 people. 7/2 428, 7/3 382. All things considered for opening on a holiday weekend only a few incidents we are aware of. Maybe more signage for the trail, USFS will put up a sign addressing fire danger. Request for a garbage receptacle.

CHP: Starting the 7th will have an Officer patrolling Friday through Monday regularly from 09:00 to 19:30 on the south end, he or she should come up as far north as the deli.

SO: Jesse is out patrolling regularly, both south and north of the PCB.

Unified Command: Discussed the need to continue after Paul’s slide is open, no objections voiced. CT conference calls will continue.
We will plan the next UC meeting on July 17th to be on the south side at the fire house.

Other: Tourists walking and biking in the road, electric bike tours advertising going to closed areas, (Parks to address). Other advertising showing illegal bonfires on the beach, USFS to address. Residents and tourists crossing the PCB work area after hours, SO to confirm the signage, they will start citing. Traffic on Nacimiento road, we will respond as usual to any incidents. Suggestion to put a “no camping” sign at the bottom of Naci so people know they cannot camp alongside the road.
Campers have nowhere to camp on the south side, and bicyclists have no through traffic as Paul’s slide is a closed area for residents/deliveries only, they either should not be heading south or should return the same day.

Call 911 for any emergencies.

Per Daniel Swain of Weather West:

“At the moment, it does appear that Southern (and possibly central California as far north as the Bay Area) may be in a generally favorable position to see occasional pulses of moisture and mid-level atmospheric instability over the next 2 weeks. This will probably lead to bouts of widespread mountain and desert thunderstorms, and probably at least a couple of shots at isolated thunderstorms across coastal areas. The timing is impossible to pin down at this point, as weak mesoscale disturbances rotating around the 4-Corners High will dictate the highest likelihood of thunderstorms. As usual, there will be some fire weather concerns associated with dry lightning (especially in the wake of our big heatwave).”