The California Department of Transportation officially reopened on Friday, Feb. 27, the remaining stretch of northern Pacific Coast Highway between Yerba Buena Road and the Sycamore Day Use Area, which had been intermittently closed since early December.
... Within the prolonged three-mile closure, three separate locations of the highway were undermined, according to Caltrans. Union Engineering of Ventura — the contractor who was awarded the $7 million emergency contract for the repairs — removed 40,000 cubic yards — 4,000 truckloads — of dirt, cleared dozens of drains, thousands of scuppers and weep holes and rebuilt thousands of feet of shoulders and slopes. The contractor used a 200-ton Link Belt crane to place 8,168 tons of rock to help rebuild the rock slope protection south of the Sycamore Day Use Area along the highway.
“[This is] a truly good example of government and private industry cooperating to complete the job,” Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin said at the press conference.