Passenger services remain suspended; repair work could continue through February
Freight rail service between San Diego and Orange counties stopped for two days last week because of a slow-moving landslide in San Clemente that is pushing the railroad tracks toward the ocean.
“On Wednesday afternoon, a measuring device in the hillside reported out-of-the ordinary movement in the slope,” said Scott Johnson, a spokesman for the Orange County Transportation Authority’s Metrolink regional passenger rail service. The 2021 slide cracked the foundations of several single-family homes in the nearby gated community of Cyprus Shores. Two of the homes were red-tagged as unfit for habitation and remain unoccupied, Dave Rebensdorf, San Clemente’s utilities director, said Monday. A third home was initially red-tagged, but after additional inspections the occupants were allowed to return.
The repairs underway this time, in addition to placing more rocks on the beach, include installing 220 “tiebacks,” which are steel anchors drilled deep into the hillside that hold flat panels at the edge of the slope to stop the earth from sliding. The ground on the seaward side of the panels will be back-filled so the tiebacks will not be visible when the work is finished.
Metrolink is the OCTA’s regional passenger rail service, which normally stops as far south as the Oceanside Transit Center. LOSSAN is the rail corridor that runs 350 miles between San Diego, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo.
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