{"id":33865,"date":"2020-05-11T06:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=33865"},"modified":"2020-05-11T06:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:14:31","slug":"waterford-landslide-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2020\/05\/11\/waterford-landslide-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterford, New York: a large, damaging landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waterford, New York: a large, damaging landslide<\/h4>\n

An unexpected landslide at Waterford in New York state<\/a> in the United States last week threatened a number of houses.\u00a0 There are many news reports about this event, which will have been devastating to those living in the vicinity.\u00a0 The best set of images that I have seen were collected by Jim Franco<\/a> using a drone, and posted to Twitter<\/a>:-<\/p>\n

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The landslide at Waterford in New York. Image by Jim Franco<\/a>, posted to Twitter<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The landslide at Waterford in New York. Image by Jim Franco<\/a>, posted to Twitter<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Unfortunately the rear scrap of the landslide continues to undergo retrogression, with up to 2 metres having been lost since the main failure, causing collapse of the decking<\/a>.\u00a0 Local officials have noted, rightly, that stabilising the land is going to be a major challenge.\u00a0 The materials that form the landslide appear to me to be complex fluvioglacial deposits, which will be prone to erosion.<\/p>\n

The image below<\/a> provides a good sense of the whole of the failure:-<\/p>\n

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The landslide at Waterford in New York. Image by Times Union<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Note that whilst it might appear that the landslide is on the outside of the bend in the river, this is not the case. The water at the toe of the slope is a small lake.\u00a0 Given that the landslide was not triggered by rainfall, the cause of the failure is somewhat unclear.<\/p>\n

The location of the landslide is 42.799, -73.680. The Google Earth image below was collected in June 2018.\u00a0 There is nothing that is immediately obvious here that appears to indicate that a failure was likely, although the dense vegetation makes interpretation very difficult:-<\/p>\n

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A Google Earth image of the site of the landslide at Waterford, NY.\u00a0 The marker is on the property that is nw endangered by the landslide.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On reflection<\/h4>\n

Rainfall across Africa continues to cause high levels of loss from floods and landslides. In Rwanda, dozens of people have been killed<\/a>, including eight members of a single family in a landslide at Gakenke<\/a>.\u00a0 In Kenya, landslides have affected a number of areas<\/a>, whilst three people have been killed by a landslide<\/a> in Uganda.\u00a0 In Ethiopia, 12 people were killed in yet another landslide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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