Island Highway re-opens after washout
OCEANSIDE — A major Vancouver Island highway is expected to re-open Monday evening after a serious washout.
Mike Pearson, district manager of transportation on Vancouver Island, said engineers were hard at work fixing the situation after Highway 19A north of Cook Creek Rd. was washed out at roughly 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 19.
The eroded soil was removed and replaced with a safety fabric to re-enforce the road and provide some solid structure, before being filled once more with fresh soil and rock.
“We’re confident the fix we’ve put in today, with the geo-technical fabric and the new material, will hold and we’ll be monitoring it very closely,” he said.