Parts of Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway have been reopened to locals, which were closed over the weekend due to debris flows, Caltrans said.
In showers in late April, parts of the scenic coastal highway were closed on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Tuna Canyon Road and Big Rock Drive on Saturday afternoons. By 4:30pm, the road crew had made great strides to clear the PCH, but “there was still a lot of mud to clear the mud on the tuna canyon road,” he said in a social media post on X.
The PCH resumed on Sunday morning with soft closure restrictions and was open only to residents with burn scar passes, contractors, emergency responders and designated metro and school buses.
Over the weekend, late-season storms had about a quarter inch of rain across Southland, but reduced up to half an inch to the Palisade burn area, meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld said Oxnard’s National Weather Service.
“It’s definitely a little late in the month to get a system like this,” Schoenfeld said. “Every year at this time of the month, we can draw in some slower systems that have rain.”
By the end of May, Cultlands said it hopes to reopen a wider strip of coastal highways, from Showtouka Boulevard in the Pacific Ocean to Carbon Beach Terrace in Malibu.
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