Ministry of Transportation staff were at yesterday’s regional district meeting, answering questions about the safety of Highway 4 around Cameron Bluffs.
Maintainance contractors are patrolling the area during storm events, and steel gates were recently installed to shut down traffic flow should a rock slide occur.
Michael Pearson, Ministry of Transportation’s Vancouver Island District Director says the work conducted this summer means the slope is as safe as it was before the fire.
“Between June 23rd and the end of August we completed a significant amount of rock scaling and danger tree removal and engineering assessments,” he said. “That included over 215 danger trees removed, a thousand tons of material, rock bolts, 1.5 kilometres of new barriers and fencing, and a weather station to allow us to continue to monitor conditions.”
Pearson said the newly-installed weather station recorded 135 mm of rain over 2 days earlier this week, and there were no slides.
He says work continues on ensuring the safety of motorists through the Cameron Lake corridor, but as a result, proposed improvements to Cathedral Grove have been shelved for now.
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