Authorities are still unsure what caused the ground to give way after a luxury unoccupied home was destroyed in a landslide.
A luxury unoccupied home was destroyed in a landslide at McCrae, in the Mornington Peninsula, this week in an incident that leftThere are now a total of 20 homes blocked off on either side of the landslide after five more were added to the exclusion zone.Five more families have been ordered to evacuate from where a landslide occurred in Victoria, with authorities still unsure what caused the ground to give way. "The whole street is helping each other," Simon said.
Excess groundwater has been raised as a possible cause, but South East Water has tested its local mains network and hasn't found any leaks. "We can't rush it for obvious reasons ... as soon as we can let people back in, we will," Marsh said.
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