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For the first time in months, recent measurements from across the landslide area — from July 1 to Aug. 1 — showed the overall rate of land movement had decelerated, by about 1%.
Homes on Peartree Lane remain damaged in November 2023, months after a landslide in Rolling Hills Estates. A new lawsuit over the collapse, which destroyed eight houses, may merge with similar ...
The application of vegetation to increase the slope stability against erosion and landslide is a form of bioengineering that is widely used in areas where the landslide depth is shallow. Vegetation increases the stability of the slope mechanically, by reinforcing the soils through plant roots, which stabilize the upper part of the soil.
This type of measure is used in cases of smaller landslides. The effectiveness of micropiles is linked to the insertion of micropiles over the entire landslide area. In the case of rotational landslides in soft clay, the piles contribute to increasing the resisting moment by friction on the upper part of the pile shaft found in the landslide.
Although this outcome is new for the area, geologist El Hachemi Bouali called the movement "actually quite normal for a landslide." Read more: Rancho Palos Verdes bans bikes, motorcycles from road ...
Soon after the City released the repair estimate, floods in early May 2019 damaged more of the trail, causing it to slide into the creek. The landslide area was considered so dangerous that it was not possible to do any work to repair it. [42] In addition, a man who was bathing in the creek at 9th Street was swept away by the flood and drowned.
A resident of the neighborhood takes a picture of a house on Peartree Lane in Rolling Hills Estate, which suffered extensive damage following Saturday's landslide.
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