City of Pacifica Community Public Information Meeting. Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 7:00 p.m., Pacifica Community Center Auditorium, 540 Crespi Drive, Pacifica.
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Related article- Pacifica Tribune/Jane Northrop Staff Writer, 5/14/13,
"San Pedro Creek Bridge replacement last step in flood control project; homeowners see savings in flood insurance." .... "The bridge
replacement project is in the design and environmental review phase.
Construction is scheduled to begin next spring, said Van Ocampo,
director of Pacifica's public works department. The construction is
expected to take 18 months, during which time Highway One traffic at
Pedro Point will be reconfigured. The San Pedro Creek Bridge was
originally constructed in the mid 1950s. It has a low elevation that
places it within the flood zone and it has a narrow span that
bottlenecks the flow of San Pedro Creek. .... The replacement bridge will
be designed and constructed based on current structural and seismic
standards, and will be approximately five feet higher to help ensure the
bridge will remain passable even during 100-year storm events. It will
also have a longer span of approximately 140 feet to accommodate the
widening of the creek channel underneath."
Related articles - Coastsider/Barry Parr, 2/15/14. "The undertaking, requested by the City of Pacifica, will be managed by Caltrans and funded by the San Mateo County Transportation Authority and state and federal funding." The article includes the mapped location. Fix Pacifica reprint article, Pacifica Tribune/Jane Northrop, 12/8/11.
Note: Photograph by Camden Swita is from a Pacifica Patch article, 7/30/11. San Pedro Creek bridge is on the east side of Highway 1, across from Pedro Point. The graphic mapped location is from the Coastsider/Barry Parr article.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
10 comments:
Public meeting after the works starts. I have seen them cutting trees in the creek and along side for the last 3 weeks.
So in fixing this Highway 1 bridge Caltrans is good. In fixing the rest of Highway 1 through Pacifica, Caltrans is bad.
Make up your minds people. Peter Loeb and the Vallemar Noobees and nimbies own you, and control your minds.
1038 That's breathtaking. You got a quota to meet?
Unable to make Caltrans meeting, but hopefully, someone will raise the question as to whether a 5 foot rise in the level of the bridge will be adequate, given the predictions that sea levels will be rising (substantially?) at some point.
anony chicken little 1153 Sea levels are predicted to rise 1-2 feet in the next 100 years. The bridge is over 20 feet above sea level. Think it through man.
Right about now Sue Digree, is reading this saying:
" I told you all so, and y'all laughed at me when I was taking about sea level rise"
Yeah 1:11 the part of highway 1 Sue was talking about being affected by sea levels rising is over 50 feet above sea level.
But I'm sure she is laughing to herself.
Any of you old enough to remember the hysteria of a new ice age coming? that would be the 70's and we would be able to saunter out to the farollones (sp) and visit the plovers. Oh, that was a good one. North America down to (you make up a line) would be covered in glaciers SOON.
Sorry if I take the, what used to be called global warming, climate change hysteria with a little bit of doubt.
Yes I remember that Cousteau. I think they said it was a result of ozone depletion. We could have been in an ice age within 20 years is what the experts of the time said.
Our climate has been changing constantly for billions of years. Bermuda was under water as recently as 5000 years ago.
Yes the climate is changing. But how much is natural change and what will change is still beyond the "experts".
Here's some guesses from NOAA http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html
There is no certainty even among scientist. That being said, it would be prudent and good for our health and the planet to cut carbon emissions and the use of fossil fuels and other pollutants.
Anonymous 10:38am said...
"So in fixing this Highway 1 bridge Caltrans is good. In fixing the rest of Highway 1 through Pacifica, Caltrans is bad.
Make up your minds people. Peter Loeb and the Vallemar Noobees and nimbies own you, and control your minds."
Educate yourself friend. The projects have very different goals" flood control for the bridge and, well what is it, traffic, safety, love of pavement, for the highway one widening.
One project (the bridge) is being completed by the Army Corps of engineers. The other (highway)is proposed by CalTrans.
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