Work on Mountain Charlie Road can’t begin until the landslide stops moving and funding is secured.
Residents Antonia Ondo-Estokova, left, and Debbie Robinson walk across a collapsed portion of Mountain Charlie Road to get to their homes in Los Gatos on March 21 after an active landslide closed the road. Residents say the one- to three-year timeline the county has given them for road repairs is frustrating, particularly since the repairs can’t start while the slide is still active.
“Once we have that data, and once everything kind of settles out and stops moving, then we can start to really look at what repair strategies are available to us,” Wiesner added.FEMA has issued several disaster declarations for the county in recent years that have unlocked hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid, but the county has yet to receive the full amount of this aid. Among the disaster declarations is one in 2023 for heavy storms in the county.
If the county did have the funds to support repairs on the road immediately, the process would still take anywhere from six months to a year after the slide’s movement stops later this summer, Wiesner said. Community members are pitching in to help. Theresa Bond, a board member for the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District where many Mountain Charlie Road residents attend school, visited the landslide in April to meet with residents and draft a report on the situation to the state department of education’s school facilities and transportation services division.
“Every morning when my daughter leaves to go to school, I worry about her getting across the slide safely and getting to school,” she said. “It’s frustrating that we still don’t have any answers,” Robinson said. “Obviously, the slide is still active so they can’t do repairs, but the timeline that we were given, one to three years, is just really stressful.”
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