The memories of the Porvorim landslide last year have come back haunting as the mud from one of the benches has come down crashing posing a threat to the motorists. The landslide site on Mandovi bridge approach road at Porvorim was posing grave danger to the traffic even as possibility of a bigger landslide looms large. Sensing danger, the Public Works Department decided to construct a retaining wall 290 metres in length and three metres in height to prevent any further damage. However, within the first week of rains the mud came crashing proving the doubts raised by some environmentalist right. "After the benching of the site the distance between the road and the hill was 2.5 meters but inorder to construct the retaining wall of three meters we had to dig more into the last bench,' PWD Div 7 Executive Engineer Ulhas Kerkar told Herald. "This has made the mud softer due to which it has come down,' Kerkar added. He further stated that although the minor landslides will pose no problems for the road users as the upper mud is stable and the distance between road and hill is of 8 meters. "There will be no problems for the road users,' he said. However, he revealed, that the work on the retaining wall could begin only after the weather calms down. "Any work at this point could pose a threat to labourers,' he said. Meanwhile Kerkar in the department said that procedure for terminating the contact of M/s N B Dhargalkar is gaining momentum after the fresh landslide. "Had we given tender to some good contractor the work would have neared completion,' he said. However, he maintained that there was hardly they could do as the contractor had quoted 20 per cent less than the tender amount. "If we had to bypass this we would have been questioned by auditors,' he said adding "we are looking into legal angles of terminating the contract now.' M/s Dhargalkar bagged the tender for an amount of Rs 1.23 crore and was to complete the work in 180 days time including the monsoons. However, to the department's dismay the contractor started showing a lethargic approach to the project by employing just three four labours per day for the construction of retaining.