Sacramento County Department of Transportation workers began work this week to remove a nearly 40-year-old fall risk along Sunrise Boulevard in Fair Oaks — a sound wall that officials said had become dangerously unstable.
In late April, county engineers who had been monitoring a teetering section of the wall since 2024 discovered it was leaning at a 10-degree angle, county spokesperson Matt Robinson said. A sound wall is a freestanding barrier that blocks traffic noise for nearby residential properties.
The county immediately shut down the far-right southbound lane of Sunrise Boulevard just south of Wildridge Drive and the sidewalk bordering the sound wall due to concerns that the barrier would fall. That traffic lane will remain closed until the wall and sidewalk are rebuilt, which is expected to take until September, Robinson said…