Gray Slip, 1988 – a look back through photos
Category: Road Conditions
Gray Slip, 1982 – a look back through photos
Overnight Closures at Paul’s Slide Oct 28th and Oct 29th
Today’s Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018
District: 05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: Susana Z Cruz (bilingual) or Colin Jones
Phone: (805) 549-3138 or 549-3189
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EMERGENCY RETAINING WALL REPAIR AT PAUL’S SLIDE REQUIRES TWO FULL OVERNIGHT CLOSURES IN BIG SUR STARTING SUNDAY NIGHT, OCT. 28
MONTEREY COUNTY – Construction work on the existing retaining wall will requires both directions of State Route 1 at Paul’s Slide (PM 21.6) to fully close overnight for two nights, starting on Sunday, Oct. 28.
The highway will be closed from 10 pm to 6 am the next morning. Motorists/cyclists are advised to plan around these two emergency overnight full closures. This roadwork should be completed by Tuesday morning, Oct. 30 at 6 am.
Note: Emergency services will be allowed passage through road closure.
Paul’s Slide suffered major storm damage in January, 2017, losing part of its embankment including the southbound lane and closing for several months. Paul’s Slide near Limekiln State Park remains active and continues to be monitored. It has currently been operating under a temporary traffic signal for over a year and the signal will remain in place.
John Madonna Construction of San Luis Obispo is the contractor for this project. Construction work on the existing retaining wall at Paul’s Slide will ensure a safer environment for all travelers.
Caltrans reminds motorists to move over and slow down when driving through Highway work zones.
For more information on this project and for traffic updates on other Caltrans projects in Monterey County, residents can call the District 5 toll free number at 1-831-372-0862 or can visit our website at: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/paffairs/release.htm#mon
Susana Z. Cruz, Caltrans District 5
Public Information Officer
Gray Slip, 1981 – a look back through photos
Today, I am continuing with the historical perspective I started Monday on Gray Slip. One of these photos from 1981 I know I have published before, but I don’t think I have some of the others. It helps to understand where we are currently by looking back at where we have been. These are the oldest photos I have in my collection of this area, so we will start there.
Gray Slip, A perspective
There is a historical slide south of Mud Creek that many of you may not have heard of, or may not remember. This is Gray Slip. Madonna dug into this area during the repairs to Mud Creek to obtain dirt (as if there wasn’t enough at Mud Creek?) and transport it back to Mud Creek. Rock Knocker watched from above many times as they would bring a load of dirt from Gray Slip to Mud Creek, and then turn around and do it all over again. He couldn’t figure out why they did that, and to this day does not know why.
Rock Knocker went through some of his old Gray Slip photos, and I found some in an album I put together of a few of the major slides from 1980-1993. I also have an album I made from the El Niño of 1995. I did some online research and found a couple studies from 2001 re the major slides (40 page report I downloaded into iBooks; here is a link I found to the report so that you can download it. http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/Documents/landslides/Caltrans/SR_185/CT001mon%20Report.pdf
and another one on Erosion and Revegetation Management Report done by CSUMB and Rana Creek Restoration and Paul Kephardt done in Dec. 2000. (http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/home/showdocument?id=37877 ) Both provide some interesting insights into what we may see this winter in this spot and others.
This is a shot of Gray Slip from above taken this summer:
You can see all the water in the pit Madonna dug here in this photo from July. There are other areas not in this photo that are also showing water coming out, even now, in October, after a very dry summer season.
Earlier this month, Rock Knocker and I were coming back from a town trip south, and I asked if he could stop so I could take some photos. I had noticed quite a bit of water coming out of the hill, and noticed the cracks above where the Madonna team had dug out a pit in the mountain. I wanted to document this. He walked up and took photos on 10/8/18. He hiked up even further on 10/13/18 and took even more photos.
Throughout the coming weeks, I will be posting some of the historical photos I have of this area, some of the photos and data charts from the 2 studies mentioned above, and after I have done that, I will share some of this month’s photos. This project will take me a few weeks to complete.
Highway 1 road work next week
Highway 1 Big Sur South Coast: October 16 – October 19
Daytime paving along Highway 1 will result in traffic control between the San Luis Obispo County Line and Lime Creek Bridge form 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Highway 1 Big Sur: October 15 – October 19
Daytime slide removal along Highway 1 will result in traffic control between Hot Springs Creek Bridge and Burns Creek Bridge form 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Highway 1 Bixby Bridge: October 17 – October 18
Daytime bridge inspection at Bixby Bridge will result in traffic control form 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Film Shoot at Bixby, yet again…
I received this last night at 6 pm. Doesn’t say what time, so I emailed him and asked for an approximate time.
Hi Kate:
About 10 minutes ago, I received an email from David Booth at the California Film commission, saying I should notify you that we are filming at Bixby bridge on Monday.
Apparently David only received this email from Karen Nordstrand of the Monterey Film commission about 30 minutes ago.
Both David and Karen have known for about 2.5 weeks, about my intent to film a shot of about 30 to 90 minutes on the bridge, Monday, by car, and drone (non closure).
We’ve already received permission from CA film Comm, Monterey Film Comm, DOT, CHP, Ventanaws.org, CA. Fish and Wildlife, MBNMS and Big Sur Chamber of commerce.
Feel free to call me to discuss the shot: “Man in Car and Woman in car drive over bridge”: That’s it!
Best,
Seth Levin
Line Producer/Locations
310.962.0937
Additional Road Work next week
Highway 1 Big Sur: October 8 – October 12
Daytime work along Highway 1 will result in traffic control and flagging at multiple locations between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The locations are:
- Big Creek Bridge – striping
- Bixby Creek Bridge -striping and bridge work
- Willow Creek Bridge – striping
- Garrapata Creek Bridge – striping
- Garrapata Creek Bridge to Granite Canyon Bridge – drainage work
Drainage work on Highway One next week
CALTRANS TO PERFORM DRAINAGE WORK ON STATE ROUTE 1 BETWEEN GARRAPATA CREEK BRIDGE AND GRANITE CREEK BRIDGE SOUTH OF CARMEL HIGHLANDS STARTING MONDAY, OCTOBER 8
MONTEREY COUNTY –Caltrans Monterey Maintenance crew will be doing one-way reversing traffic control to remove debris from drainage/flow lines on both directions of State Route 1 between Garrapata Creek Bridge and Granite Creek Bridge south of Carmel Highlands starting Monday, Oct. 8 through Friday, Oct. 12, from 8 am to 2 pm each day, Caltrans officials announced today.
There will be electronic message boards alerting the public of this lane closure. Motorists should not encounter delays exceeding five minutes. This roadwork will be performed by the Caltrans Monterey Maintenance crew and the purpose of the drainage work is to remove debris from the flow lines as part of winter preparation and to ensure a safe environment for all travelers.
Caltrans reminds motorists to move over and slow down when driving through highway work zones.
For more information on this project and for traffic updates on other Caltrans projects in Monterey County, residents can call the District 5 toll free number at 1-831-372-0862 or can visit our website at: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/paffairs/release.htm#mon
Tourist Tuesday, 10/2/18
Just photos of one completely misused and abused spot.
Here are a few more I grabbed in about a minute. Note, one is Russian…
