The road cut by conventional blasting techniques has fractured the rockmass which also contains a sheared zone (50 cms thick) along foliation direction. The saturation of the slope reduced the shear strength parameters of the fractured rockmass affected
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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Right bank of Kanal Gad
Extend the existing retaining wall along the entire  length of slide
Shattered and folded rockmass with a 50 cms thick shear