The heavy rainfall and flash flood in the Pinder river eroded the toe of the slide and damaged 100 m road length.

An Interim Report on Preliminary  Geological  Slope Stability Assessment of the Recent Disaster Affected Areas in Parts of Chamoli District, Uttarakhand by Bhupendra Singh, Bhupender Singh, Ajay Kumar and Arindam Roy, Senior Geologists, M-IV, NR GSI Dehr
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East of Chaunda village, on Simli-Gwaldham
Concrete wall for toe protection, benches for slope modification, breast wall and retaining wall with weep holes and lined drainage.
Heavy rainfall caused saturation which together with toe erosion of the slope by Pindar River caused movement of slide. The movement was aided by removal of fines from the slope forming material due to its oversaturation.