Road cutting has been carried out with nearly vertical faces towards hill side. The heavy rainfall and saturation of the slope reduced the shear strength and detached the rock blocks creating free fall downslope.
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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Left bank of Revti Ganga River.
Retaining wall of suitable design and height should be provided both below the road with adequate drainage arrangement.
Reduced shear strength due to folded and crumpled nature of rocks.