This weekend's wet weather could mean setbacks for people in the South Bay cut off by a landslide that hasn't stopped moving. The main road into their neighborhood is still crumbling. Here's the latest on the damage that keeps getting worse.
Lauren MartinezA geotechnical team installed a device to read a landslide in the Santa Cruz Mountains that is still moving.On Friday, a geotechnical team installed a device to read a landslide in the Santa Cruz Mountains that is still moving.They park their car off Mountain Charlie Road in Los Gatos and use a makeshift trail to hike homeAccording to the county this landslide is still active.
Residents in the Santa Cruz Mountains are learning how to manage life impacted by a landslide that's still moving and could take years to repair. Steve Wiesner, Assistant Director of Public Works Santa Cruz County said they're seeing 1-2 feet of movement weekly since it started at the end of February."It's about a 70 foot deep boring that enables us to see subsurface movement so we can detect where the slide plane is," Wiesner said.
The county says they'll be collecting measurements on Saturday, Monday and next week for the next 3-4 weeks. "Not only will it measure subsurface ground movement but we'll have instrumentation in there to groundwater elevations as well," Wiesner said.Wiesner said it will also help their case that this damage is part of a larger scope of a problem that began during last year's storms."To me it's encouraging because this is some action that's taking place," Ferris said."They've said if everything was all locked in, they could probably get it done in a year.
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