NEAH BAY — About 200 dump-truck loads of mud and debris had been removed from a mudslide on state Highway 112 as of Wednesday afternoon.
Both the Makah tribe and Bruch and Bruch Construction Inc. of Port Angeles, which was hired by the state Department of Transportation, have worked this week to remove some 3,000 to 4,000 cubic yards of mud, boulders and trees that buried both lanes of the highway at Rasmussen Creek at 6 p.m. Friday.
The slide severed access to Neah Bay for about 21 hours before one-way alternating traffic access was restored Saturday evening.
Full access at the point four miles east of the Makah reservation isn’t expected until the latter part of the week, said Kelly Stowe, Transportation spokeswoman.
“We are on track to be done by Friday,” she said.
An estimated 300 to 400 truckloads of dirt and debris will have to be cleared to fully reopen the highway, Transportation has said.
The debris is taken in dump trucks to private land, Kelly said.
She didn’t know where the property is.
