Caltrans completes Luther Pass construction
Caltrans announced today it has completed a project on Highway 89 in El Dorado County that is designed to safeguard water quality in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin. The $17 million project received $11 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The project on Luther Pass will direct roadway water runoff to treatment collection facilities. The project also widened highway shoulders, constructed curbs and gutters, and repaired and constructed drainage facilities between the Alpine County line and Highway 50 in Meyers.
Thank you very much, it make the drive to Kirk-wood smoother,less standing water to freeze send you in a 360 spin at 80.That tends to get the blood flowing.
It’s still well worth the drive to all the returning locals,ski hard crowd, that love the real meaning of mountains,A way of life that sooths the soul, make life worth living.
The Clouds,Winds, are Saving up a Big Dump Champagne Crystals, IT’S A NATURAL SNOW MAKING MACHINE.
Be patient” IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN.”!….yahoo…..Yahoo !
Sorry to burst your bubble but curb and gutters hold runoff on the road where it freezes and is a safety hazard. Much of that road used to sheet flow into the woods which is a safer way to get the runoff off the road where it will soak into the ground.
Regarding water quality, befire this project most of the run off from Luther pass simply soaked into the ground and never made it to the upper truckee river. Now this 17 million dollar gutter system and storm drain system collects the road runoff which is full of fine sediment and connects it to the river.
This project was sold to the public as water quality but was nothin more than “leave no contractor behind” and was only about jobs.
No bubble to burst but your own there Chucky Doll-V!
When you going to tell me that all rivers run to the sea?
Don’t let this stop you from eating Pacific wild caught Salmon, or are you eating farmed poo-poo Atlantic grown there Chucky-V?
All that EPA bunch —- or the Tahoe lake trout died decades ago!
SOUNDS LIKE YOUR HAVING A T.R.P.A.”Hallunation”…here, eat this “Big Root’, it clear your mind right up.????!
Chuck+1,
Near worthless project that took longer to complete than Americas combat roll in world war two.
God only knows how much global warming was caused by all the idling cars over the last three years.
I’m starting to hear comments that erosion control facilities that are located more than half a mile from the lake are so ineffective their impact is almost unmeasurable.
Have to agree with you Chuck, seems to be a worthless project that ignores all those square miles of mother nature’s natural filtration. And it sure detracts from a beautiful alpine pass. 17 million and they couldn’t afford to toss a little dark gray dye into the concrete mix? It looks like a friggin’ L.A. freeway.
RIGHT, LETS JUST KEEP THE ROADS LOOKING LIKE THE NICE ONE HERE IN TOWN, YOU KNOW, THE ONES THAT CLOG YOUR SNOWBLOWER, GOT GRASS GROWING ACROSS THE STREET TO THE OTHER SIDE, MAN HOLE COVERS DEEP ENOUGH TO SPIN THE HUB CAPS OFF YOUR CAR INTO GRANNYS PICTURE WINDOW.
ICE SHEETS STREACHING TWO BLOCKS DOWN THE STREET ON THE SHADY SIDE.
SWEEPERS THAT ONLY SWEEP THEIR LUNCH PAPERS UP, WHILE THEY SIT IDEL UP A THE VILLAGE TURKEY SHOOT, DOING NOTHING BUT COLLECTING A PAY CHECK.GOOD THING THEY GOT A SHOVEL, THEY DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF MEXICAN BACK-HOE!
CLING-ONS ARE EASY TO SPOT..HOW ABOUT A RIDE ON A DISCO STICK?MAYBE NO FILTER FOR DAVE,CHUCKY,JUST LOTS RUN OFF IN THE LEG AREA.”LOL!