Land Erosion

Precautionary and Safety
Measures for Landslides

What to do before Landslides
Build an emergency kit.
Make a plan for your household, including your pets, so that you and your family
know what to do and where to go in the event of a landslide.
Sign up for your community’s warning system. The Emergency Alert System (EAS)
and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio also
provide emergency alerts.
Leave if you have been told to evacuate or you feel it is unsafe to remain in your
home. Text SHELTER + your ZIP code to 43362 (4FEMA) to find the nearest
shelter in your area (example: shelter 12345).
Consult a professional for advice on appropriate preventative measures for your

home or business, such as flexible pipe fittings, which can resist breakage better.
Protect your property based on recommendations from a qualified geotechnical
professional and/or local city/county guidance on protection from debris flow
and flooding. You can't stop or change the path of a debris flow. However, you
may be able to protect your property from floodwaters or mud by use of
sandbags, retaining walls or k-rails (Jersey barriers).
In mud and debris flow areas, consider building channels or deflection walls to
try to direct the flow around buildings. Be aware, however, that when a flow is
big enough, it goes where it pleases. Also, you may be liable for damages if you
divert a flow and it flows on a neighbor's property.
Talk to your insurance agent if you are at risk from a landslide. Debris flow may
be covered by flood insurance policies from the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP).
What to do During Landslides
Listen to local news stations on a battery-powered radio for warnings.
Always follow the instructions from local emergency managers. They provide the latest
recommendations based on the threat in your community.
Stay alert and awake during a storm that could cause a landslide. Many deaths from landslides
occur while people are sleeping. Be aware that by the time you are sure a debris flow is coming, it
will be too late to get away safely. Never cross a road with water or mud flowing. Never cross a
bridge if you see a flow approaching because it can grow faster and larger too quickly for you to
escape.
If you do get stuck in the path of a landslide move uphill as quickly as possible.
Avoid river valleys and low-lying areas during times of danger. If you are near a stream or channel,
be alert for any sudden increase or decrease in water flow or water that changes from clear to
muddy. These can be signs that a landslide is coming.
What to do after landslides(land erosion).
Stay away from the slide area. There may be danger coming from additional slides.
Listen to local radio or television stations for the latest emergency information.
Watch for flooding. Floods sometimes follow landslides and debris flows because they may both be started by
the same conditions. Check for injured and trapped persons near the slide, without entering the direct slide
area. Direct rescuers to their locations.
Report broken utility lines and damaged roadways and railways to appropriate authorities. Reporting potential
hazards will get the utilities turned off as quickly as possible, preventing further hazard and injury.
Allow trained professionals to check the building foundation, chimney, and surrounding land for damage.
Replant damaged ground as soon as possible since erosion caused by loss of ground cover can lead to flash
flooding and additional landslides in the near future.
Seek advice from a geotechnical expert for evaluating landslide hazards or designing corrective techniques
to reduce landslide risk. A professional can advise you of the best ways to prevent or reduce landslide risk,
without creating further hazard.
Different techniques can address the various problems in the landslides.
Measures and techniques appropriate for addressing different problems of the
landslide treatment are as follows:
a) Land use improvement: Techniques include conservation plantation, grass plantation, on-farm
conservation, agro-forestry, safe water drainage, and runoff harvesting ponds or dams in the
catchment.
b) Drainage management: To prevent runoff from flowing into landslides and to drain the excess
water from landslides, drainage management is essential. Drainage management may be surface
and subsurface drainage management.
c) Surface erosion control: Techniques applied include grass or tree sapling planting, jute netting,
mulching, wattling, and brush layering
d) Erosion control in rills: Techniques applied include fascine, contour grass planting, rip-rap, and
palisade (wide rills).
e) Erosion control in gullies: Techniques applied include palisade (small gullies), and check dams
made of brushwood, stone, boulders, gabions, masonry, or concrete.
f) Slope failure due to slope cutting or steep slope: Techniques applied include crib walls of bamboo, poles, or
concrete), retaining or toe walls of stone, gabion, masonry, or concrete. Anchoring may be used in a deep-
seated landslide to bolt the rock bed but this is not easy and is generally not used unless the landslide affects
national structure, such as hydropower or a highway.
g) Slope failure due to heavy load on slope upstream of landslide: Techniques applied include excavation to
remove rock and soil from the head of a landslide to reduce the driving force, and filling rock at the toe of the
landslide to increase resistance against movement.
h) Slope failure due to toe cutting by stream / river: Techniques applied include revetment, spurs, or a riprap
toe wall to prevent cutting by the stream or river.
Landslide treatment is a complex activity because each landslide is different from
all others. Different site-specific techniques are based on the problem analysis.
Expensive structures should not be used to treat geological (natural) landslides
unless and until they affect habitation or infrastructure (e.g. roads and hydropower
projects). Community involvement is integral to successful landslide treatment,
which should include the protection of settlements including educational centers,
initiatives to reinstate livelihoods, water resource infrastructures such as irrigation
and drinking water source, and agriculture land.
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