Landslide FOLO

Engineers say part of Route 9 in Choctaw County will remain closed for an extended period of time.

This all began when a severe landslide was discovered between Reform and Sturgis Road and State Route 790 last week.

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Engineers say part of route 9 in choctaw county will remain closed for an extended period of time.

This all began when a severe landslide was discovered between reform and sturgis road and state route 790 last week.

That stretch of road is between ackerman and eupora.

Bobby martinez caught up with an engineer today at the landslide.

He joins us live in studio.

So bobby, what is next?

The road continues to get worse as the days go on.

And with all the rain we had, plus, some we may get in the future, engineers say it's only going to make this situation worse.

So they are doing all they can to try and fix this road as safely and as fast as they can.

"we're concerned about the traveling public and their safety."

It's something like you'll see in a movie.

A large landslide that continues to expand on state route 9 in choctaw county has had engineers on high alert since friday.

District engineer, matt dunn, says it was mandatory to shut the road down as soon as they saw what was happening.

"we started to see the cracks opening up.

And we starting seeing the horizontal displacement which means the road is sinking.

So we made that determination to close the road."

"so what we are seeing here is both vertical and horizontal displacement of the pavement as you can see from this crack.

We have some gaps 6 to 8 inches plus its vertical displacement 4 to 5 inches.

These numbers you see here, is what we're doing is measuring a daily movement of the road to help us better get an idea on how to fix the road.

So the question now is... what is next?

"now we have our geo technical engineers have taken sole samples and our survey party has come in done and survey the area and so now our geo technical engineers can make a determination how best fix the road."

,take vo in monitor dunn says this part of the highway can be closed for several months.

So drivers are advised to seek alternates routes until