The road cutting has created a steep vertical face. The heavy rainfall saturated the previously stabilized hill  slope debris composed of unsorted dolomite boulders and pebbles and mobilized them in downslope direction. The toe erosion is the other facto
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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On right bank of Mehar Gad
Gabion wall is partly damaged and need to be provided along the entire stretch of road affected by slide.
Saturation of the slope forming material reducing its shear strength parameters