Landslide In Voghjaberd Hinders Traffic

[MosJan]

LANDSLIDE IN VOGHJABERD HINDERS TRAFFIC

 

Quite a big part of Garni-Geghard road became totally impassable because of the Voghjaberd landslide.

 

In fact, Voghjaberd landslide has reached the critical point, i.e. 900 meters of the road are ruined. Today, the road is controlled everyday.

 

For many years, the road wasn’t capitally renovated, as the community and the government didn’t chose the most effective method of annihilating the landslide and the problem grew bigger with time.

 

Today they do the same, they fill the ruined parts but it doesn’t help and the landslide grows bigger. "When we fill the hole with a bit heavier materials, the next day a new one opens. It seems that we will have to build an overpass stretching for 1 km to secure the work of the traffic. We need serious investments," Andranik Manukian, RA transport and communication minister, said.

 

"We shouldn’t have left that in this condition for so long. The landslide is too big. They say that we can build a subway there, but it can’t be built in the landslide," Ruben Yadoyan, head of Hydrogeology laboratory at RA National Academy of Sciences, specialist of landslide, said.

 

The specialists studied the road 15 years ago. Today, many things changed. The specialists first of all suggest creating a relevant group for the research and study the whole territory.

 

It’s known that the Japanese are carrying out anti-landslide programs in Armenia for a year already. They study the landslide areas of Armenia with the local specialists.

 

By Karine Danielian