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The lower part of a massive colluvium landslide located along the Ohio River near Ravenswood, West Virginia, has affected railroad traffic for an undetermined time. The railroad had unsuccessfully attempted to stabilize it by using timber piles and railroad rails. The roadway above the railroad had not required significant maintenance before 1970. Afer the pool level of the Ohio was increased by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from elevation 551.4 ft to 560.0 ft between 1969 and 1971, the landslide movement became more active. The subsequent repair for the roadway had progressed beyond routine maintenance by 1975 with subsidence of the roadway and a near-vertical 2-ft scarp at the edge of the pavement. In a geotechnical study in 1976 to develop a correction, it was found that the movement at the roadway and railroad was but a small part of the total instability, which included the entire mountainside. The 1,000 ft movement extended from the top of the mountain to below the pool level of the river. The methods of correction considered were a piling wall, a counter berm, and a relocation. The methods of failure ranged from shallow to deep-seated circular failures, flows, topples, and planar failures. The final correction, proposed in 1976 but constructed in 1984, that satisfactorily solved all of the instability problems was a major relocation of the roadway into the hillside.

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Case studies; Colluvium; Highway maintenance; Landslides; Relocation (Facilities); Slope stability; Slopes; Soil stabilization; Subsidence (Geology)

Causes; Relocation

Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics

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Jul 31 1988 12:00AM

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