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plans were already under way £or
their replacement.

In District V
District V, embracing Santa Bar-
bara, San Luis Obispo and Monterey
counties, was even more fortunate
than District X I , as the storm closed
but few of its major highways.
E leven inches of rain on the San
Marcos P ass, State Route 80, during
the storm period, caused numerous
slides on the east slope, as well as
damage to the approaches of Santa
Aqueda Creek Bridge. Detours were
available and traffic was therefore put
to no great inconvenience.
The heavy downpour, however,
added many thousands of yards of
slides on the Carmel-San Simeon
road, State Route 56 ; the Mustang
Grade, State Route 10 ; and the Pin-
nacles Road, State Route 119. Eight
power shovels and thirty-five trucks
are now engaged in clearing these Overflow waters from Coyote Creek left Firestone Boulevard, Los Ange les, looking li ke
· roads. this after being cleared of si lt.
Truck traffic was held up for a few the old overflow channel, forcing yama Road, State Route 58, where a
hours when the Santa Maria River light traffic to use the old trestle. The section of pile trestle was carried
swept over the ground level road in heaviest damage occurred on the Cu- away by the flood.

This picture vividly reveals damage wrought by Santa Clara River floods on Ventura-Casta ic lateral highway between Piru and
Los Angeles County line in Ventura County.
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California Highways and Public Works (April 1938) [Nine]