Location: Riverside Drive elevn: 71m. Lat. 49.32819 Long. -123.007

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Hazard type: ls

Short Description: Landslide kills one person in 2005 in an area of North Vancouver known to be hazardous.

Long Description: On January 19, 2005, a large rainfall event triggered a landslide in the Berkley escarpment, just past Eliza Kuttner Park in North Vancouver. This Slide inundated multiple homes and destroyed one house causing a fatality. This was not the first slide on this escarpment. In 1979, two debris flows occurred nearby on Swinburne Avenue. These events were caused by excess drainage from roofs onto the slope instead of into the nearby storm drain. Despite this evidence of risk, more homes were allowed to be built along the bottom of the escarpment. Home owners at the top of the escarpment extended their backyards with fill which saturated during the rain even t and initiated the 2005 slide.

Clean up work continues in the slide area in North Vancouver, B.S. Saturday, Jan. 22, 2005 as rain continues to fall. Two homes were destroyed in the mud slide that killed one woman.

media1: Report on the landslide in BC’s Global News.

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