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Hurricane Mitch claimed the lives of more than 2,000 people in the municipality
of Posoltega, when torrential rains triggered a mudslide down the slopes of the
Casita volcano, burying two entire villages. Debris from the mudslide choked
river beds and changed watercourses. In identifying sites in the Posoltega
watershed that posed a high risk of flooding, the most serious threat was the
likelihood that, because of the silting up of the channel, the Posoltega River
would overflow and inundate the town of Posoltega itself as soon as the rains
returned. |
