PONDA

A second landslide at Kerye-Khandepar along the Goa-Karnataka national highway on Friday damaged two water pipelines supplying water to areas from Khandepar, Usgao, Tisk and parts of Dharbandora.

The landslide occurred around 3.10pm, when traffic on the route was less. The site of Friday’s landslide is just 400m from where Monday’s landslide occured.

However, executive engineer, PWD road division, Vijay Mardolkar said there is no danger in travelling on this road. 

“Such small landslides happened even earlier during monsoon. Since the existing road touches the hill, soil collapses on it directly. But, the widened road will come in the centre and there will be no risk of such incidents in future,” Mardolkar said.

Assistant engineer PWD Nivruti Parcekar said the pipelines that were damaged by a falling boulder were 250mm ductile iron one that supply drinking water to overhead water reservoirs at Mharvasaddo-Usgao and Pratapnagar-Usgao from where the water is released to Khandepar, Usgao, Tisk and parts of Dharbandora.
The pipelines were recently shifted to the extreme border of the widened road, Parcekar said.