Concerns grow in Burlington over future landslides on Riverside Ave following UVM study [Video]

Researchers from the University of Vermont are raising concerns about Burlington’s Riverside Avenue and potential future landslides.The new study was published earlier this week and scientists are saying that it’s even more important for Burlingtonians to see after this week’s historic rain in the North East Kingdom.”It’s actually really urgent to start this conversation now because otherwise we have a dozen buildings on this slope, any one of which over the next decade or two decades could land in the river,” said Paul Bierman, professor of natural resources at UVM.For example, one part of Riverside Ave has nearly doubled in erosion since doctoral candidate, Bella Bennett, and Bierman were there last winter.”We basically have the slope slumped by a foot and a half here, and when we were here last winter, it was maybe eight inches,” said Bennett.Both researchers are involved with the Gund Institute for the Environment through the …