Robert Service Way will remain closed for at least another three weeks as the city prepares to build a sheet pile wall as a temporary measure to make sure another landslide doesn't cross the thoroughfare, city officials said Thursday.
The city is considering soil berms with additional reinforcement netting, concrete blocks, or a combination of the two that could incorporate the sheet pile wall as a permanent solution, Abbott said.On April 30, a landslide saw an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 cubic metres of sand, silt and clay fall from the escarpment across Robert Service Way, the Millennium Trail and into the Yukon River.
City officials said they can't clean up the debris now because there is still too much soil moisture, which caused the landslide in the first place. The area where the landslide took place in Whitehorse on April 30, 2022. City officials said on Thursday the area was still too dangerous to remove the debris that crossed Robert Service Way and into the Yukon River.