The blasting for road cutting has distressed the dolomitic blocks resting on the dip slope and in the event of heavy rainfall the blocks slided downslope and blocked the road.
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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Dwari village
Part unloading of the loose rock blocks from the dip slope.
The gradual sliding of the rock blocks along the dip slope probably weakened by the blasting effect for road cutting.