Tons of rock needed for work on East Bay

There is nothing but a 30-foot drop off where the southbound lane of East Bay Drive used to be. At high tide, the waters of Coos Bay lap at the edge of a pile of downed trees, rocks, chunks of asphalt and mud. Signs block the roadway from each direction. But occasionally curious pedestrians walk up to look down at the results of a slide that started during the last week of January. If they look closely, they can see trickles of the saturated ground still sliding down the hillside.