Slope failure was initiated due to road cutting and due to heavy rainfall and consequent rill erosion the debris material accumulated along the road side initiating mass wasting further upslope
Interim report on Preliminary Slope Stability Assessment of Recent Disaster Affected Areas of Bageshwar District, Uttarakhand by Manoj Kumar Kaistha, Sr. Geologist; Ravi Negi & Sebabrata Das, Geologists and P.V.S. Rawat, Superintending Geologist, M-IV, N
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2.5 km from Katpuriya Chhina
Breast wall with weep holes
Rill erosion led to the failure of highly jointed and deeply weathered rock mass