{"id":130,"date":"2017-09-18T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2020-11-15T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:23:00","slug":"porteau-cove-rockfall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoashazards\/porteau-cove-rockfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Porteau Cove rockfall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Location:<\/b> Porteau Cove elevn:<\/b> 34m. Lat.<\/b> 49.55883 Long.<\/b> -123.235<\/p>\n

Direct Google URL:<\/b> This link takes you to a prepared viewpoint.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hazard type:<\/b> ls<\/p>\n

Short Description:<\/b> Rock fall on a particularly vulnerable stretch of the Sea-to-sky highway, and some mitigation strategies.<\/p>\n

Long Description:<\/b> This area of Highway 99 has been the site of major rockfalls that have closed the highway for days at a time.The ferry dock here may be useful as an emergency transportation option. See an additional 360 panorama at https:\/\/www.360cities.net\/to\/image\/old-port. Also, Porteau Cove Provincial Park sits on a “terminal morain” (look it up), which extends in huge arc across the entire Howe Sound. See http:\/\/sustainablehowesound.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Howe-Sound-Bathymetry-Map.pdf for an excellent map of Howe Sound’s depth or “bathymetry”.<\/p>\n


\nThe granit rockslide covering Highway 99 and the railway a few hundred meters north of Porteau Cove.<\/p>\n

media1<\/a>:<\/b> Short general article about the location, the park, glacial geology and rockslide hazards at Portequ Cove and vicinity.<\/p>\n

media2<\/a>:<\/b> Report on the road closure and other impacts of this July, 2008, rock slide, by CBC.<\/p>\n

In Depth<\/a>:<\/b> Short news story from CTV News Vancouver<\/p>\n

Some content on this page has been copied, adapted or referenced from Dep\u2019t Geog. UBC\u2019s virtual field trip blog, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fieldtrips\/.<\/a><\/p>\n

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