Sascha Wil­son

A dump truck cap­sized while the dri­ver was try­ing to ne­go­ti­ate a land­slip along Camp­bell Trace in Lib­er­tyville, Rio Claro, on Tues­day night. For­tu­nate­ly, nei­ther the dri­ver nor the lor­ry man, who work for a trans­port com­pa­ny in Tabaquite, were in­jured.

The truck was pulled out yes­ter­day morn­ing with the use of an ex­ca­va­tor.

Rio Claro South/Cat’s Hill coun­cil­lor David Law said the land­slip oc­curred about four or five months ago, but the Ma­yaro-Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion does not have the re­sources to have it re­paired.

He said the mat­ter was raised at a coun­cil meet­ing and they were told that the road de­te­ri­o­ra­tion was the re­sult of works by pri­vate land de­vel­op­ers.

Law sug­gest­ed that the cor­po­ra­tion pack the land­slip with boul­ders or put up road sig­nage, but he said on­ly a bam­boo bar­ri­cade was erect­ed.

“This is a dan­ger­ous sit­u­a­tion. It is ur­gent. We may be short of ma­te­r­i­al but we need some ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion by the min­istry to bring re­lief there.”

Not­ing that there are two more land­slips in the area, he said the one at LP 32 River­side Road, Fon­rose Vil­lage, Rio Claro, has re­sult­ed in the road be­ing closed.

Law ex­plained that a re­port was sub­mit­ted un­der Un­spent Bal­ances 2020 for works to be im­ple­ment­ed in 2021.

How­ev­er, he said there has been no re­lease from the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Min­istry as yet.

The oth­er de­pres­sion is at Old Ma­yaro Road, Lib­er­tyville.

“Some­thing has to be done about these land­slips,” he lament­ed.