Landslide

Ohio Department of Transportation - Tue June 22, 2021

Catching Costly Landslides, Rockslides Before They Happen

Landslides and rockslides are a common issue in parts of eastern and southern Ohio. The Ohio Department of Transportation will use $35 million in federal stimulus funding to complete dozens of projects aimed at catching these issues early or even preventing them in the first place....

Caltrans - Tue March 09, 2021

Caltrans Begins Recovery of Big Sur Highway Collapse

Caltrans announced that major emergency repairs of Highway 1 on the Big Sur Coast at Rat Creek have begun and that it estimates it will reopen the famed roadway early this summer. Debris flow from the Dolan Fire burn scar washed out a 150-ft....

Associated Press - Tue February 09, 2021

Crews Working to Repair Washed-Out Scenic Highway

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Construction crews are working to determine when they can rebuild a section of scenic roadway near Big Sur after it collapsed in torrential rain during the last week in January, but the damage was not as bad as from a 2017 landslide that cut off the tourist destination along the central California coast for over a year, officials said....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 27, 2021

Emergency Situation — Spider Excavators Fix 'HeleSlide' Along Critical Highway

Referred to as a "HeleSlide" by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), a major landslide occurred in 2019 along State Route 299 between Junction City and Willow Creek in Trinity County (northwestern California) that brought down a massive amount of rock and earth and revealed a fractured and fragile mountainside along the critical highway....

Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Mon August 10, 2020

ALDOT Plans Twin Bridges Over U.S. 231 Landslide

A dramatic combination of large pavement cracks and an underground landslide on U.S. Highway 231 near Huntsville, Ala., in the early morning hours of Feb. 13 prompted an immediate closure of roughly 1,000 ft....

Ohio Department of Transportation - Tue July 21, 2020

Crews Complete Landslide Repair in Morgan County

More than a year after a massive landslide forced the closure of State Route 376, the road has been reopened. A 900-ft. section of the hillside above SR 376 began to move in February 2019, forcing the Ohio Department of Transportation to close the roadway and begin emergency repairs....

Chattanooga Times Free-Press - Mon June 15, 2020

Repairs Continue on Slide-Damaged U.S. Highway 41 in Tennessee

The now nearly $19.2 million Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) slide repair project begun just over a year ago on U.S. Highway 41 in Marion County has been delayed again, due to another wintertime swamping by Mother Nature....

Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Mon March 25, 2019

TDOT Stabilizes I-24 Hillside After Landslide

The Tennessee Department of Transportation reopened a section of eastbound Interstate 24 two days earlier than expected following a landslide Feb. 23. The slide, which took place near mi. marker 42, dumped approximately 50,000 cu....