Costs climb for San Clemente railroad stabilization work as difficulties mount at troubled landslide location
Costs continue to mount for the ongoing effort to stabilize a slow-moving landslide that has suspended passenger train service between San Diego and Orange counties since September.
The total so far does not include the money being negotiated to pay nearby owners for the additional right-of-way needed to install the stabilization devices along the tracks. Also not included are the costs of fees and staff time to obtain a coastal development permit from the California Coastal Commission, and the expense of any mitigation that the commission could require.
In recent weeks, “slope sloughing” was detected in the hillside above the tracks, Biel said. To stabilize that area, work crews installed “soil nails,” which are a shorter version of the 220 “ground anchors” being drilled into the ground to stabilize the landslide.Soil from the drilling area had to be loaded onto rail cars and carried to an offsite storage area near Basilone Road and the San Onofre State Beach to create enough room for a safe workplace, Beil said.
Freight service, which operates mostly at night, has continued throughout the project, though the trains travel slowly and less frequently across the work site.
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