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The Snug Harbor Drive errosion problem:
In February 2011 there was extremely high and fast flow on Steamboat
Slough, at times, and it seemed also very low tides, at times. We
noticed a portion of the bank along Snug Harbor Drive was erroding very
fast. This bank had been fine since put in by USACE in the 1930's.
The trees and bushes were falling and washing away, taking more small
rocks and dirt with them. By March we started having sink holes
under the pavement. Sink holes to the south end of road were
filled with sandbags with road base inside them. Sink hole to the
north was filled with sandbags and dirt from the bank, as it was
smaller. In February, NSS contacted the state OES in Sacramento,
the local Reclamation office too. Reclamation said since its a
privately-owned road, they can't help with it. The state OES said
to keep them updated and to contact county OES. NSS sent emails to
county OES, and was told to keep them informed. By May 2011, the
bank was still washing away up to the edge of the pavement and more
sandbags were placed but on the advise of local experts some protective
riprap has to be placed. At low tides there is a sandbar or band
where workers can walk to place riprap, so during low tide this will be
done sometime during the week of May 15-20. All Snug Harbor Drive neighbors and
others trying to visit Snug Harbor need to know that access will be
limited when the truck that hauls the riprap and the excavator are on
the road as there is no way to pass on the road when they are working.
It may be a 15 minute wait or longer, so please be patient!
UPDATE MAY 19, 2011
Riprap was delivered and placed at low tides and using the existing big
chunks of rock as the "toe" to hold the riprap. Road is safe once
again. And since we had to bring in a big escavator to carefully
place the riprap, we're going to try to float the junk in Snug Cove over
to the bank and haul it up into a dumpster. Several neighbors have
said they will help to get the junk to where the escavator arm can reach
it to put into dumpster...first time in years neighbors are working
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Photos show the end result after riprap was placed to
protect the bank from further errosion. A big excavator had to
carefully place the riprap after scraping back some of the
still-existing roadway to create a slope. We'll be adding road
base on top and will most likely have to repave this section of the
road.
We still do not know why this year is different from other years, as the
errosion was rather sudden and this road has withstood much stronger and
wetter winters. Lots of questions to ask of DWR and USBR, I guess. |
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