Thomas Fire Recovery-Culvert Repairs
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2018-06-15

As we pass the six month post-Thomas Fire mark, we have moved away from emergency repair and stabilization work and have moved into full blown replacement and rehabilitation work.  This includes making roadways passable and able to handle the future stresses of upcoming winters.

Here on the 33 Freeway above Ojai, many of our culverts that failed or where damaged in the wake of the wintertime flows over the fire-denuded hillsides have been fixed or will soon be.  Most of these have been augmented or enlarged to handle the heavier flows and larger debris mass we anticipate over the coming rain events  when the hillsides are relatively bare.