NPRA still working hedge mountainside after the slide in Nærøy Valley on Tuesday.
It was Tuesday afternoon that E16 was closed after a major rockslide in Nærøy valley between Voss and Gudvangen. The landslide must have fallen from about 800 meters altitude, and according to NPRA is about 300 meters of road affected.
No cars or people were affected by the landslide. The road is closed indefinitely.
– The road will not be opened today. When we are finished with securing work we’ll know more when we get opened road, said Acting Deputy Director Ingar Hals in NPRA, veiavdeling Sogn og Fjordane, in a press release.
Risk of new landslides
Wednesday and crews worked to clean the mountain of stone before cleanup work can begin.
– Already on Tuesday night, we got a geologist hit, which has investigated instead. The geologist has reported a risk of new landslides, and advised us to purge the mountainside before cleanup work begins, says Helge Rong NPRA to Bergens Tidende.
Ingar Hals elaborates to VG:
– today we have done a job of having helicopter in here, who have bombarded loosen area with water, because we suspect that there may be more fixed. It has not loosened so much today, but we think that the water that has come into the crevices in the mountains to get soak for during the night, said Hals.
– We estimate the risk of new landslides that small . But we are awaiting tomorrow morning before we begin to clean, he added.
Ras at E16 earlier this summer : The road train was hit by rubble
MASSIVELY: According Sogn Avis was some of the stones hit the road as big as cars. They have blown to bits before they can be cleared away.
Photo: Margit Hylland NTB scanpix Can be closed for several days
According Sogn Avis will some of the boulders hitting the road have been the size of a passenger car. Hals is unsure of the extent of the clearance work, but says that there are some large boulders that must be blasted away and shared.
– In rough stipulation it will take two to three days, he said.
He is unsure of the extent of the damage to the road.
– it’s been a part railing, and there is some damage in the asphalt. But how great the damage is we do not know until we get in and get started to clear, he said.
According to Hals is the first time it runs a landslide in exactly this position.
– The area is generally susceptible to landslides. It has been a part ras few kilometers further up here, as we shall secure underground for a few years. But exactly where it went landslide now, we have not registered any major landslide earlier, he said.
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detour
Motorists who will run from south to north or vice versa should use E39 over Lavik-Oppedal. For road users to be east-west is signposted detour via Highway. 7 over Hardangervidda.
Motorists are asked to take it easy on the detour roads. Updated traffic information and advice will be published on the website of the Public Roads Administration.
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