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The failed area includes a small registered cut slope at the base of the hillside. The debris was very mobile, flowing across a flat area of shipyard buildings at the seaward side of Shum Wan Road and into the sea.
A 30-metre section of Nam Long Shan Road collapsed at the head of the failure. A broken storm water pipe exposed on the south side of this slip scar has been diverted but runoff water from the broken road is still pouring into the scar during heavy rain, making conditions for rescue operations very difficult. At least two vehicles were swept downslope in the debris. A lorry and a taxi remain perched at the crest of the landslip scar.
At the base of the slope, Shum Wan Road remains blocked. A safe area on either side of the debris was fenced off. About 50 people were then evacuated from other shipyard buildings adjacent to the debris. Removal of the landslip debris has been interrupted by further heavy rain.
By 1.30 pm today (Monday), 75 landslip incidents have been reported to the Geotechnical Engineering Office. Of these 49 have affected roads, 11 occurred behind buildings, and seven affected squatters.
Among them, 52 occurred on Hong Kong Island, 12 in Kowloon, nine in the New Territories and two on outlying islands (Cheung Chau and Lamma).
Up to 1 pm today, about 350mm of rainfall have been recorded at the Royal Observatory since 8 am last Friday (August 11). Maximum cumulative rainfall for the same period has exceeded 500mm in Central and Eastern Hong Kong Island, Eastern Kowloon, and the Central and Eastern New Territories. Heavy rain exceeding 100mm occurred over some areas of the northern and eastern New Territories since early this morning.
Since the GEO emergency control centre was first activiated at 10.30 pm last Friday, it has mobilised 11 emergency teams to respond to incident reported, and more than 80 professional staff have been involved.
End/Monday, August 14, 1995
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