Lake Tahoe road update; SR-89 at Emerald Bay may open Saturday

SR-89 at Emerald Bay may open Saturday after crews have made significant progress on clearing away snow from last week's storm as well as snow and debris 20 feet high from a slide that fell onto the highway at Vikingsholm.

Meanwhile, one lane of U.S. Highway 50 remains open in each direction at Bridal Veil Falls while emergency work continues on a major slipout that destroyed the #2 westbound lane and also impacted the #1 lane. Work there is also expected to take several months for the design and construction of a new retaining wall to stabilize the slope.

A section of State Highway 193 in El Dorado County has been reopened to one-way traffic controls tonight after emergency repair work stabilized the area. The highway had been closed since Tuesday, February 21 from the junction of Highway 49 in Placerville to Rock Creek Road after mudslides and slope erosion from massive saturation did damage to the northbound lane. The slipout will require a long-term closure of several months while a retaining wall is designed and constructed. In the meantime, this area of the highway will be restricted to signalized one-way traffic controls.

Doug Veerkamp General Engineering Inc. is doing the emergency work on Highway 50 and Teichert Construction on Highway 193 under emergency contracts. The total cost for the repairs hasn’t been determined yet

Motorists should confirm with both Caltrans QuickMap and NDOT's NVRoads.com before attempting to travel in the Sierra to see up to the minute conditions. Both also keep people up to date on their Twitter accounts.

Caltrans - quickmap.dot.ca.gov
Nevada Department of Transportation - nvroads.com
Twitter Caltrans - @CaltransDist3
Twitter NDOT - @nevadadot