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Managing landslide hazards on the Illawarra
escarpment.
P. Flentje
University of Wollongong,
[email protected]
R. N. Chowdhury
University of Wollongong,
[email protected]
Publication Details
This book chapter was originally published as Flentje, P and Chowdhury, RN, Managing landslide hazards on the Illawarra
escarpment, in Morrison, J (ed), Proceedings of the GeoQuest Symposium on Planning for Natural Hazards - How can we mitigate
the impacts? GeoQuesst Research Centre, University of Wollongong, 2005, 65-78.
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MANAGING LANDSLIDE HAZARDS ON THE
ILLAWARRA ESCARPMENT
P.N.Flentje1 & R.N.Chowdhury2
Research Fellow1 and Emeritus Professor2
Faculty of Engineering
University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, AUSTRALIA
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: For 12 year the University of Wollongong landslide research team has
been developing a Geographic Information System based Landslide Inventory of the
Wollongong Local Government Area and surrounding areas. This inventory can now
provide data in near real-time via the World Wide Web. The inventory includes 569
landslide sites with a total of 956 landslide ‘events’ (includes all known occurrences and
recurrences). Of these, four landslide sites are fully automated and continuously
monitored, with data from them immediately accessible with a PIN access via the World
Wide Web. Emergency response organisations and utility managers, as well as
researchers and other stakeholders can monitor the movements, and this is especially
important during times of high risk when direct access may be difficult. With an average
annual rainfall across the city in the range 1200mm - 1600mm, landslides in
Wollongong are primarily triggered by periods of prolonged heavy rainfall. The value to
risk management of direct, near real-time access to data on landslide activity is obvious,
and has been recognized world wide. The project will be extended by widening the area
covered by the Inventory and near real time monitoring stations, and by refining the
understanding of the rainfall thresholds likely to trigger landslide activity.
INTRODUCTION
This paper is primarily concerned with the management of landslide hazard and risks
and incorporates a discussion of a comprehensive GIS-based Landslide Inventory and a
network of continuous monitoring web-enabled landslide field stations. The landslide
inventory has been developed for the Wollongong Local Government Area (LGA) and
the surrounding areas. The landslide inventory is a key component of the landslide risk
management strategy developed at the University of Wollongong for the Wollongong
LGA. Projects where the landslide inventory has contributed are highlighted. The
importance of an observational approach is implicit in this strategy. In addition to the
Landslide Inventory, a network of real-time continuously monitored web-enabled
landslide field stations is being developed. Four such stations are currently operating in
Wollongong, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. A wider network of field
stations is proposed for the study area and extending to other landslide sites outside of
the study area. The key features of these field stations are outlined here and some data
from three of the stations are presented and discussed. Utilising the data from such
stations requires the development of strategies to facilitate the efficient dissemination of
information and response. These implementations of the observational approach are one
component of a comprehensive strategy for the management of landslide hazard and risk
employed within the Wollongong area.
The Wollongong Area
The city of Wollongong is nestled on a narrow coastal plain approximately 70km south
of Sydney in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia as shown in Figure 1.
Over the last 150 years of settlement the population of the Wollongong area has
increased to about 200,000 people. The coastal plain is triangular in shape with a coastal
length of 45km. The coastal plain is up to 17km wide in the south and extends north to
Thirroul. To the north of Thirroul, urban development exists on the lower slopes of the
escarpment. The coastal plain is bounded to the north, west and south by an erosional
escarpment ranging in height from 300 m up to 500 m
Figure 1. Location plan for the City of Wollongong showing the four automated field stations.
The escarpment consists of slopes with moderate to steep inclinations with several
intermediate benches and cliff lines. The geological sequence encountered on the
escarpment comprises an essentially flat-lying sequence of interlayered sandstone,
mudstone and coal of the Illawarra Coal Measures, overlain by interbedded sandstones
and mudstones/claystones of the Narrabeen Group. Spectacular cliffs of Hawkesbury
Sandstone (of Middle Triassic age) cap the escarpment and there is dense vegetation
over most of the escarpment below these cliffs.
The main road link to Sydney is the F6 Freeway that traverses the escarpment via Mount
Ousley Road. There are several other road links from the coastal plain to the top of the
escarpment such as at Bulli Pass. Lawrence Hargrave Drive links the northern suburbs
to the F6 freeway via the spectacular near vertical 200m high cliffs near Clifton,
although one section of this road is currently closed due to landsliding (Hendrickx, et
al., 2005).
The South Coast railway line and the Unanderra to Moss Vale railway line also cross
the escarpment slopes and coastal plain; both provide important freight and passenger
services between Sydney, Wollongong and the surrounding areas.
Processes and mechanisms of slope failure are controlled in Wollongong by factors such
as stratigraphy, geotechnical strength parameters, hydrogeology, geomorphology, slope
inclination and pore water pressure. The landslide inventory contains 3 main types of
landslides, namely falls, flows and slides. Prolonged and/or intense rainfall is typically
the trigger for significant landsliding. The average annual rainfall for Wollongong varies
from 1200mm on the coastal plain near the city center and up to 1600mm along the top
of the escarpment.
Background
The landslide research team at the University of Wollongong (UoW) has carried out
systematic research over the last twelve years with funding from the Australian
Research Council (ARC) as well as significant support from several key external
industry partners. These include the Wollongong City Council (WCC), the Rail
Corporation (RC), Geoscience Australia (GA) and, more recently, the Roads and Traffic
Authority (RTA). During this research, a number of aspects have been covered:
1 The development of a comprehensive GIS-based datasets including boreholes and
structural geology
2 The development of a comprehensive landslide inventory containing 569 landslide
sites (Flentje, 1998, Chowdhury and Flentje 2002)
3 The development of comprehensive GIS-based maps of geology and landslides
4 Geological and geotechnical modelling, deterministic and probabilistic studies
5 GIS-based and numerical modelling of the spatial variability and recurrence of
rainfall
6 Measurement of landslide movement with the aid of inclinometer monitoring and
relating this movement to magnitudes of cumulative rainfall; and thereby
identification of landslide-triggering rainfall thresholds
7 Development of a strategic framework for assessment of landslide hazard and risk
including qualitative and quantitative methods and including scope for both sitespecific and area-specific studies (Ko Ko 2001, Ko Ko et al. 2004).
8 Knowledge-based modelling, using ‘data mining’ techniques, facilitating the
preparation of GIS-based susceptibility maps for specific landslide types for a whole
region (Chowdhury, R. et al. 2002).
In 2004, the WCC and RTA both confirmed support for a further five-year University of
Wollongong landslide research plan. In 2005, Rail Corporation with the support of the
University of Wollongong won a Natural Disaster Mitigation Programme grant from the
State Emergency Management Committee in collaboration with the Department of
Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS) for a 5 year research project concerning
landslide and flood hazard and risk management, with the aid of continuous and near
real-time early warning systems along the South Coast rail corridor.
In addition to the above, the Geelong City Council in the state of Victoria has also
commissioned the installation of a University of Wollongong web-based continuously
logging real-time landslide field monitoring station at an important landslide in that
LGA. This field station is currently under construction and will be managed through the
University of Wollongong web-based facility discussed below.
GIS-BASED LANDSLIDE INVENTORY
The GIS-based Landslide Inventory comprises digital landslide datasets (shapefiles in an
ESRI ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase), from which maps are generated of all the known
landslide sites. The Landslide Inventory has existed now for 10 years and has
substantially grown in capacity every year since it was first developed (Chowdhury and
Flentje 1998). The Inventory currently includes 569 landslide sites with a total of 956
landslide ‘events’ (including all known occurrences and recurrences). For example, Site
113 in Thirroul has 16 recurrences documented following its first recorded movement in
March-April 1950.
The key identifier for each record in the Landslide Inventory is the Site Reference Code,
being a decimal number with one significant figure, is unique for each landslide site. An
abbreviated data dictionary for the 22 standard fields required for each landslide site is
shown in Table 1 and the database record ‘form’ showing these standard fields is shown
in Figure 2. The database has a total of 75 fields available for each site and a
comprehensive data dictionary is available the complete database.
Table 1. Standard fields ‘data dictionary’ of the Landslide Inventory
One aspect of the Landslide Inventory that has been extremely useful is the listing per
site of the first occurrence and any subsequent recurrences of each landslide site (Flentje
and Chowdhury, 2002). Such a listing for Site 113 is shown in Figure 3. This
information is important for the assessment of landslide frequency, and provides
significant evidence of landslide hazard. For example Site 113 was first reported in
April to March 1950, and was most recently active in October 2004, a period spanning
54 years. With the 17 landslide events known at this site, the average annual frequency
of landsliding is 0.315. With additional information regarding magnitudes or rates of
displacement at each event, the frequency of landsliding can be defined even more
precisely. Such calculations can directly be used in the quantitative assessment of risk.
Figure 2. Database Record form showing the 22 standard fields for landslide Site 113.
Figure 3. Landslide occurrence/recurrence data from Landslide Inventory for Site 113
In addition to the tabulated database, GIS-based maps of the known landslide locations
can be prepared. An example of the mapping capability of GIS software is shown in
Figure 4. GIS maps can be prepared at different scales, governed only by the resolution
of the data displayed on the maps. One wall of the first writer’s office is covered with
1:10,000 scale maps of the Wollongong region containing, as a background, a 10m
Digital Elevation Model of the region, cadastre, geology and superimposed on this
landslides colour coded by landslide type.
Figure 4. GIS-based map segment of Landslide Inventory showing the Scarborough and Wombarra
areas in the northern suburbs of Wollongong.
The University of Wollongong Landslide Inventory is now well known in the New
South Wales geotechnical community. It is increasingly being used as a reference source
for a range of infrastructure developments being considered or already in progress in
Wollongong. The following list summarises the projects that have sought regional and
or site-specific landslide data from the Landslide Inventory to date:
•
The Wollongong City Council and University of Wollongong landslide databases
are combined to form one comprehensive Inventory
•
Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales Alliance partnership review of
Slope Hazards affecting the Lawrence Hargrave Drive between Clifton-Coalcliff.
This was part of the process for the $54 million bridge construction project which is
now in progress
•
Rail Corporation of New South Wales review of landslide-triggering rainfall
thresholds for the South Coast railway line
•
The New South Wales Department of Urban Affairs and Planning Commission of
Inquiry into the long term planning and management of the Illawarra Escarpment
and its foothills
•
Development of the Illawarra Escarpment Management Plan by the Wollongong
City Council
•
National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales exposure to landslide risk
along the Wollongong escarpment undertaken by URS Pty Ltd
•
Assessment of the viability of a Rail Corporation of New South Wales realignment
of South Coast railway line by Coffey Geosciences
•
Sydney Water Corporation development of Low Pressure Sewerage Scheme for the
four Wollongong northern towns of Otford, Stanwell Park, Stanwell Tops and
Coalcliff
•
University of Wollongong Landslide Research Team development of GIS-based
landslide hazard maps for the WCC LGA using ‘data mining’ techniques.
•
Daily operations of the WCC related to geotechnical management of landslides
within the LGA.
•
A variety of local and Sydney based geotechnical consultants daily operations
related to management of landslides within the LGA and surrounding areas.
•
Input of all Wollongong landslide locations into the Australian Landslide database
managed by Geoscience Australia.
This list of projects clearly demonstrates the importance of the valuable information the
Landslide Inventory contains. Having the information in one accessible location adds
value to every project that accesses the information. The alternative of not having the
accurate information accessible, regularly updated and in such a flexible format is
unthinkable in the difficult and challenging Wollongong terrain.
ESTABLISHING A REAL-TIME MONITORING STATION
Equipment used to monitor a landslide in real-time currently starts at approximately
$A20,000 in 2004, excluding installation costs. Such a level of expenditure is quite
justifiable for monitoring any landslide that poses a significant or moderate risk to
infrastructure, especially if there is a moderate or even low risk to human safety. At
present, four remotely accessible continuous monitoring stations have been built in
Wollongong, and selected data obtained from three of these stations are discussed in this
paper.
The instruments used in the Wollongong applications include In-Place-Inclinometers
(IPIs) and vibrating wire piezometers (VWPs) installed at depth in boreholes. Rainfall
Pluviometers have been installed at all the field stations to record rainfall as it occurs
(0.2mm or 0.5mm bucket tips).
The stations are all powered by small solar panels which charge 12 Volt 7.0 Ah sealed
lead-acid batteries housed in Campbell Scientific PS/12 Power Supply/regulator units.
Tele-communications are performed by Wavecom WMOD2 digital cellular mobile
phones. Data-logging and on-site data management is carried out with Campbell
Scientific CR10X data loggers. Durham Geo Slope Indicator (DGSI), a geotechnical
instrument manufacturer, has bundled these systems together and supplied them to the
University of Wollongong, together with the programming for the CR10X data loggers.
DGSI staff have completed the CR10X programming incorporating our research-based
landslide triggering rainfall thresholds and other troubleshooting as required.
Real-time data acquisition and data management
Data management in real-time is an integral aspect of this monitoring and a key
component of the University of Wollongong system. The LoggerNet and MultiMon
software, from Campbell Scientific and DGSI respectively, enable remote access to the
field stations from an office-based PC with a modem and a telephone connection.
The programmable CR10X data logger is the intelligent component of each field station.
The data loggers are set up to record data hourly and in low rainfall/dry times download
data to the office weekly. When rainfall intensity increases, the frequency of data
download is increased to daily, and even up to 4-hourly (at which time the data logger
also starts recording data at 5 minute intervals). The rainfall intensity thresholds to
trigger the varied data logger responses are coded in the software over antecedent
intervals spanning 6 hours up to 120 days.
The office-based PC can contact the field stations at any time and download data. Alarm
conditions can be set on the office PC software whereby colour coded data boxes on the
graphical displays change colour as thresholds are reached and or exceeded.
The real challenge is then to disseminate this data to geotechnical colleagues and other
managers in a timely fashion. This innovative aspect of the strategy adopted by the
landslide research team is discussed in the section headed web-based management
below.
DATA FROM SITE 113 REAL-TIME MONITORING STATION
Site 113 is a 3m deep slide-category landslide having a volume of approximately
25,000m3 that was selected as the first trial research site for several reasons as
summarised below:
•
It is an active shallow slide-category landslide that has destroyed 5 houses and 1
school building during the last 50 years
•
It has been reactivated 17 times over a period of 54 years indicating an average
annual frequency of 0.315 (highest known frequency amongst 569 landslides in
study area) and was therefore likely to produce useful data in a short time frame
•
It exposes a school yard to landslide risk
•
A geotechnical investigation is currently ongoing at this site
•
There is existing inclinometer casing at this site and the depth of sliding is relatively
well known
The instrumentation (one IPI, one VWP and one pluviometer) was installed during
February 2003 and the station was fully commissioned on 22nd March 2003.
The continuous monitoring record shown in Figure 5 highlights a number of important
features. The rainfall over the 2-year period is close to average, with approximately
1200mm annual cumulative totals for both years. Even so, three relatively minor rainfall
events that occurred during May 2003, April and October 2004, triggered some
landslide movement at this site. The May 2003 event is discussed below. The pore water
pressure curve also displays two important points. The vibrating wire piezometer was
installed on the 3rd February 2003 and did not indicate ‘reasonable’ pore water pressure
until late June 2003, a period of 4 months after installation. However, since that time the
pore water pressure data has shown considerable daily variation superimposed on an
increasing trend. As this piezometer is installed at 3.9m depth, the variability displayed
is considered to be partly related to atmospheric pressure variation.
Figure 5. Continuous monitoring history, landslide Site 113 22nd March 2003 to 7 Jan 2005.
Rainfall, pore water pressure, landslide cumulative displacement and rate of shear.
The hourly continuous monitoring record for May 2003 is shown in Figure 6 and this
clearly shows that the landslide accelerated during the afternoon of the 13th May,
reached a peak velocity of 0.4mm/25hours on the 15th May and slowed to 0.022 mm/day
by the 25th May 2003. The landslide then briefly accelerated again up to
0.15mm/25hours in response to 53.4mm of rain on the 26th May and slowed essentially
to zero on the 30th May. However, as shown in Figure 5, the slide did continue moving
episodically at extremely slow rates until late August 2003.
NETWORKED ARRAY OF STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE STUDY AREA
There are four field stations operating in Wollongong at the present time and these
represent the early stages of the University of Wollongong proposed network of realtime continuous monitoring stations. We propose to install up to 15 additional stations
at some of the 569 landslides within the area.
The need for such an array of stations has been well demonstrated during the August
1998 Wollongong rainfall event. During this event the city experienced 750mm of
rainfall during 5 days and the city was isolated from adjacent urban centers including
Sydney for 24 hours. A total of 142 landslides were activated during and in the weeks
following this event. However, during the emergency response phase, accurate
information regarding rainfall was limited and information regarding landslide
movement was not available, other than isolated reports of damage.
The proposed network of stations will facilitate the availability of accurate information
in real-time, especially during emergency management situations, and thereby enhance
the rational allocation of limited resources during these peak demand times.
Figure 6. Continuous Monitoring record Site 113 for the May to August period 2003.
The stations provide real-time information regarding the onset of landslide movement
that is particularly important because of the episodic ‘slip and stick’ nature of many of
the Wollongong landslides. This is well demonstrated by the performance of Site 355 at
Scarborough (see Figure 4) during the late October 2004 rainfall event. The landslide
accelerated on the 21st of October and the writers were aware at 9.00am on the morning
of the 21st that this was occurring. Local government authorities were informed
immediately and inspections were carried out that morning. Over the next 7 days, the
event was monitored continuously, and updated information was provided several times
a day.
WEB BASED MANAGEMENT OF CONTINUOUS REAL-TIME DATA
Having fully automated the data collection process at the landslide sites and the transfer
of that data to the office, the World Wide Web was considered to be the most
appropriate way of managing the inbound data and its dissemination. This is especially
important given the desired audience for the data, i.e. geotechnical colleagues, managers
of essential infrastructure, managers of emergency services, police and their technical
advisers and in some cases, other stakeholders.
Using the web to manage the data has important benefits. Firstly, managing the data
from the field stations has proven to take considerable time in the office using the
commercial software described previously. Secondly, using the commercial software in
the office does not in itself get the essential data out to the required audience.
Using the ASP.NET framework with a database created in Microsoft Access, the
landslide research team in collaboration with the University of Wollongong Centre for
Educational Development and Interactive Resources (CEDIR) has developed web-based
software to provide real-time graphical updates of the incoming data as it arrives from
the field stations. The web-based facility is available via the University of Wollongong
web portal http://landres.uow.edu.au/ls/index.html which opens as shown in Figure 7.
At present four sites are available and these can be selected from the menu on the left by
clicking on the site locations on the index map.
Figure 7. University of Wollongong Continuous Real-Time Landslide Monitoring Web page.
The site-specific pages open as shown in the upper part of Figure 8. In this case, Site
355 has been selected. The most recent 2 weeks of data is always available at a glance
by selecting the 2 week overview button. Furthermore, the database of existing landslide
performance data is also available for review by selecting from a range of graphical
outputs. The web-based hourly continuous monitoring record of In Place Inclinometer
displacement at Site 355 for the 14 days up to 1st November 2004 12.00am is also
shown in Figure 8. This 2 week period includes the 21st –23rd October movement event
at this site. Graphs of hourly data displaying IPI total displacement, IPI rate, IPI
azimuth, hourly rainfall and pore water pressure for any 14 day period can be simply
generated. The 5 graph types are soon to be extended to 18 graph types and the display
period is being extended up to 180 days with a fully interactive graphical user interface.
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
The web-based real-time facility is to be upgraded on several fronts during 2005. Firstly,
due to the sensitive nature of the material presented, access to the web facility will be
password protected. At present the data supply from the field is based on preprogrammed regional rainfall intensity. As experience with the landslide sites and
instrumentation performance develops, the reporting of data could also be activated on
the basis of specified magnitudes of (a) landslide displacement, or (b) rates of
displacement, or (c) pore water pressure, or (d) refined site-specific rainfall thresholds.
The web-based software will, with the appropriate experience, also be configured to
provide warnings based on rainfall, pore water pressure and or displacement thresholds.
These warnings will be sent automatically to designated staff via a range of media
including email and telephone (voice and text). Tabulated downloads of data will also
be enabled.
The network of field monitoring stations is also being extended beyond Wollongong to
other landslide areas within the state NSW and even interstate. As has been mentioned
above, a station is currently being developed near Geelong in Victoria.
On a more general note the html address will also be expanded to access other areas of
our landslide research at University of Wollongong.
Figure 8. Site 355 Continuous Real-Time Monitoring web page with IPI Rate of Displacement
Graph for the 2 weeks up to 12:00am hours on the 1st November 2004
CONCLUSIONS
The development of a landslide inventory of a region is a fundamental task and is a
most effective means of gaining an understanding of the relevant issues affecting a
given area. Such inventories should be widely accessible for land management purposes
and be well maintained in the long term.
Continuous real-time monitoring provides an important tool for landslide risk
management especially during high magnitude (longer return period) rainfall events and
emergency management operations. However, it is also important for risk assessment
work in helping to quantitatively assess landslide frequency and hazard. In addition the
data provides an important research component as the landslide performance data
together with pore water pressure and rainfall contributes greatly to the understanding of
landslide processes and triggering mechanisms. Such data recorded at 5 minute and 1
hour intervals is providing an unparalleled database of information.
Pedrozzi (2004), working in Canton Ticino in Switzerland has recently suggested that
the regional prediction of triggering of landslides is not possible using rainfall
intensity/frequency methods. Quite clearly, site-specific information and data are
required at key sites in addition to regional thresholds. The work of the University of
Wollongong landslide research team has demonstrated that a regional landslide
triggering rainfall threshold (intensity/frequency) curve is relevant for the Illawarra area
of New South Wales in Australia. In fact a preliminary threshold has already been
proposed for this area (Flentje 1998, Flentje and Chowdhury 2001). It is understood that
rainfall threshold curves for specific landslide sites will differ from a regional curve.
The continuous real-time monitoring discussed in this paper will lead to a refinement of
the existing regional landslide triggering rainfall threshold (intensity/frequency) curve
and the refinement and/or development of specific threshold curves for the four sites.
These are important developments, as they will enhance our ability to provide early
warning of landslide activity.
Coupled with these developments is the improved quantitative assessment of landslide
frequency and hazard that this data will provide. With experience as the data record
builds up, the rates of landslide displacement and frequency of events will be reviewed
in comparison with structural damage and vulnerability tables.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The writers would like to acknowledge the support and help of DGSI staff in Australia
Mr Colin Viska and in Vancouver Mr. Alan Jones. The authors would also like to
thanks Mr Russ Pennel and Mr Dhamika Ruberu from the University of Wollongong
Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources for their assistance in
the development of the web-based software.
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