A major Central Coast highway reopened Friday morning after being closed for close to a month due to storm damage.
Highway 154 was shut down near Lake Cachuma February 2nd, after storms clogged a culvert under the roadway, causing it to flood.
The culvert was covered by about 30 feet of water, which had to be drained before it could be unclogged, and repaired. Crews also had to rebuild an embankment, and fix a damaged section of roadway. Work went on around the clock for nearly a month to reopen the roadway.
There could be restricted traffic in the area for some time still as crews do followup work. But, they reopened access ahead of schedule, with the work originally expected to be completed in mid-March.