Landslides and its Remedial Measures in Mussoorie Hilly Sections

Mussoorie Landslides constitute one of the major natural disasters. The fragile terrain often faces significant problems of geo-environmental imbalance due to landslides. The term landslide includes all varieties of mass movements of hill slopes and can be defined as the downward and outward movement of slope forming materials composed of rocks, soils, artificial fills or combination of all these materials along surfaces of separation by falling, sliding and flowing, either slowly or quickly from one place to another. Mussoorie steep terrains also face problem of Landslides. After the terrain evaluation and Landslide hazard assessment, the mitigation measures have to be taken up. These are to stabilize the various soil and rock slope, which are prone to Landslides. The method or model is used are: stability of natural slope which depends upon the terrain and material parameters. Remedial Measures are apply after the proper analysis of soil parameters, slope stability and Geomorphologic condition of study area and select the cost effective remedial measures.