The State - News from March 28, 1986

Caltrans officials said it will be at least another two months before a stretch of California 1 in and around Redwood Gulch near the San Luis Obispo-Monterey County line will be free of the mud and rocks that have kept the road closed since early this month. The biggest of three slides covers nearly 300 feet of highway, and the 100,000 cubic yards of debris cannot be pushed into the ocean as has been done with large slides in the past, a spokeswoman for the department said. Instead, the mass of mud, boulders and uprooted trees, which originated about 500 feet above the roadway, will have to be trucked out of the area. There is no alternate coastline route available to motorists.