The heavy rainfall led to the saturation and surcharging of the slope material and the joints in the calcrete and moved entire slope material downslope. The debris contains calcrete rock blocks of up to 3 m dimension. Toe cutting due to bank erosion furt
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
Calcrete rock blocks of 3m dimension and debris
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Wire crate spurs all along the toe cut zone.
Increase in pore water pressure of the slope material and reduction in its shear strength.