MALIBU GETS A ROAD TO LAST IN NICHOLAS CANYON RD.

The County of Los Angeles had been fighting a loosing battle against mother nature, when LA County Parks and Recreation Department had repeatedly repaired a beach access road only to see it washed away by the onslaught of each winters crashing wave. Finally, they decided to repair the road to survive the elements, and to save money. The design team got creative by borrowing materials used in marine construction, and creatively applied them for a structure that may finally survive the elements.  August Construction installed the beams and sheets for Padilla Paving, the general contractor.

The engineers chose FLAT SHEETS, commonly used for cofferdams and cutoff walls as the lagging and supported these with HP type beams driven into the stiff claystone bedrock.  To anchor this wall, they took a waler and tied it by way of a tie-rod to a row of independent  "U" type sheets installed across the other side of the road.  At the base of the road, they made a rectangular box similarly constructed with flat sheets, HP beams and tie-rods and much like a bridge abutment, to assure perfect stability for the wall for the long term.  And since the sands will be washed up to the road and sometimes wash away from the road (revealing the wall), it's further protected and dressed up with 4x12 treated timber at the face. 

I suspect this road's going to be there a while.  Sorry mother nature.

Installing black epoxied interlocking flat sheets using a Mobilram with