ENDERBY – Crews in Enderby are working to make sure a slope at the top of Granville Avenue doesn’t slide any further. On Monday, part of the bank slumped, releasing mud down the hill and pushing a parked jeep into a post which was supporting a garage.
“It happened really fast and it was really quiet,” says Bonnie Castle who saw the action from across the street. “We were just parking and it just all of a sudden happened. It was something that was pretty intense to witness.”
The city says a lot of melt and surface water has been coming down.
“A crevice formed behind the bank and more surface water flowed into that and it caused enough pressure that it caused that bank to subsist forward and it was hanging there partially,” says the city’s chief administrative officer Tate Bengtson.
Part of the problem is spring runoff like conditions happening in late winter.
“What is happing is we have a lot of runoff but the ground is still frozen, so we are getting spring like conditions, but it is happing during the late winter,” says Bengtson. “As a result the ground can’t absorb any runoff so it is all staying on the surface and running down and it is creating a lot more run off than typical.”
This week the city removed part of the slope and is putting in large rocks and drains to direct ground water towards the storm system. It plans to remove more of the bank that is at risk of falling and install additional rocks.
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