{"id":37828,"date":"2017-04-25T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=37828"},"modified":"2017-04-25T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:18:51","slug":"caltrans-used-20lbs-of-explosives-to-blast-debris-on-state-route-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=37828","title":{"rendered":"Caltrans Used 20lbs Of Explosives To Blast Debris On State Route 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Point, CA&#8230;In this News Flash, Caltrans takes us on location as emergency maintenance contractors perform a controlled explosion to remove potentially hazardous rocks and debris while repairing State Route 26 (SR-26) near the Amador\/Calaveras County line.  On February 10, 2017, a roadside slip-out occurred on SR-26, followed by a rockslide on February 11, 2017, less than three miles apart.  SR-26 was immediately closed in both directions as crews began to assess the damage and begin repair efforts.  While addressing these two slides, workers discovered a small sinkhole located between the two slide sites, leading to the replacement of a culvert pipe approximately 40 feet below the surface.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p-RnMDMvN_c?list=PLeXl970ijTguR-LqVqx5xi1nXZ3K3kL5q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Heavy equipment operators at the rockslide site experienced a small amount of falling debris from overhead and determined that a controlled explosion was necessary to remove this debris.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors used approximately 20 pounds of explosive materials during the controlled blast to remove these safety hazards so work could resume to restore the roadway.     <\/p>\n<p>This video can be viewed at: http:\/\/www.dot.ca.gov\/paffairs\/newsflash\/<\/p>\n<p>This News Flash is the 129th in a series of videos highlighting Caltrans\u2019 activities that present the wide-ranging and critical work that Caltrans does to enhance California\u2019s economy and livability. o see more of these and other videos, search for #CaltransNewsFlash on Twitter or go to http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ez3LYz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Point, CA&#8230;In this News Flash, Caltrans takes us on location as emergency maintenance contractors perform a controlled explosion to remove potentially hazardous rocks and debris while repairing State Route 26 (SR-26) near the Amador\/Calaveras County line. On February 10, 2017, a roadside slip-out occurred on SR-26, followed by a rockslide on February 11, 2017, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20,1,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amador-county","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","category-west-point","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4252017-21444-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}