Post by Logan on Feb 18, 2016 3:44:00 GMT -6
What a rocky road.
The Oregon Department of Transportation posted a picture on social media Wednesday morning showing a massive rockslide a day earlier along Tyee Access Road about 15 miles west of Sutherlin in Douglas County.
"Southern Oregon is prone to landslides with steep slopes and weak rock and soil," states the Facebook post. "Add a heavy dose of winter rain and events like this occur."
The job to clean up the mass lands on Douglas County, and Public Works Director Rob Paul estimated the project will cost about $50,000. The biggest rock is 40 feet wide and 40 feet tall, he said.
"This is an area where we have a lot of these large sandstones," Paul said. "We've seen large chunks come off before, but not this large for quite some time."
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/02/odot_reports_massive_rockslide.html