PORT ANGELES – Hill Street should be reopened by about 10 a.m. today after the road is cleared of the last of an estimated 300 cubic yards of mud and debris that cascaded down the saturated hillside over the weekend.
“We hauled off about 250 yards of debris,” said Mike Puntenney, city public works operations manager, on Monday afternoon.
“We still have about 50 yards to remove.
“We have an excavator that is large enough to handle it. It shouldn’t take long unless we get more slides.”
The slide was discovered over the weekend, eventually covering both lanes of the road, Puntenney said.
“It just kept coming because there’s been so much rain and the ground was so saturated,” he said.
“It just couldn’t handle it.”
Hill Street, which cuts diagonally up a bluff overlooking the waterfront, links Port Angeles’ west side residential area with Marine Drive.
