No damage in Port Coquitlam after rain brings 2 landslides

There are no immediate structural concerns after a pair of landslides in a residential area of Port Coquitlam after heavy rainfall Sunday.

Both landslides happened in the Citadel area north of Argue Street around 2 p.m.

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Director of engineering for the City of Port Coquitlam Joshua Frederick says a resident reported the slides, and the city quickly sent a geotechnical consultant to the site to determine if nearby homes would have to be evacuated.

“And then once the geotechnical consultant had arrived on site and made the initial assessment and confirmed that the risk was low-to-moderate and it was limited, we confirmed that there were no immediate evacuations required,” said Frederick.

He explains that because the slides took place on “Ministry of Transportation land,” the city contacted the province and set up an Emergency Operations Center just in case.

“So the virtual EOC was set up, and then we’ve been in communication with the residents to let them know what the ministry’s next steps will be.”

Frederick says, so far the consultant has said the conditions look “fairly stable,” but a complete report is still pending.

He says the biggest slide stopped five metres short of doing any damage to private property.

—With files from Srushti Gangdev