Quince Orchard Road between Darnestown Road and Pawnee Drive could be closed for several days. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)

WASHINGTON -- A retaining wall collapsed near Gaithersburg on Sunday, forcing evacuations and a road closure.

Three people have been evacuated from two town homes along Ridgepoint Place in the Kentlands area, says Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue.

"The homes were very close to this particular wall," Piringer says. "We did evacuate the homes as a precaution and have since called for the utilities to be shut off."

No one was injured in the collapse.

Piringer says that the ground under the wall is "very saturated" and "may still be shifting a bit." There have been problems with the retaining wall in the past, officials say.

The northbound lanes of Quince Orchard Road between Darnestown Road and Pawnee Drive could be closed for several days.

"It may be several days as engineers and inspectors need to check it," Gaithersburg Police Department spokesman Dan Lane said in an email.

Below is a map in the area of the road closure.

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Quince Orchard Road between Darnestown Road and Pawnee Drive could be closed for several days. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)

WASHINGTON -- A retaining wall collapsed near Gaithersburg on Sunday, forcing evacuations and a road closure.

Three people have been evacuated from two town homes along Ridgepoint Place in the Kentlands area, says Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue.

"The homes were very close to this particular wall," Piringer says. "We did evacuate the homes as a precaution and have since called for the utilities to be shut off."

He says that the ground under the wall is "very saturated" and "may still be shifting a bit."

Quince Orchard Road between Darnestown Road and Pawnee Drive could be closed for several days.

"It may be several days as engineers and inspectors need to check it," Gaithersburg Police Department spokesman Dan Lane said in an email.

Below is a map in the area of the road closure.

See a report from NBC Washington:

Follow @WTOP and @WTOPTraffic on Twitter and WTOP on Facebook.

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Wall collapse leads to Montgomery County road closure

Quince Orchard Road between Darnestown Road and Pawnee Drive could be closed for several days. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart)

WASHINGTON -- A retaining wall collapsed near Gaithersburg on Sunday, forcing evacuations and a road closure.

Three people have been evacuated from two town homes along Ridgepoint Place in the Kentlands area, says Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue.

"The homes were very close to this particular wall," Piringer says. "We did evacuate the homes as a precaution and have since called for the utilities to be shut off."

He says that the ground under the wall is "very saturated" and "may still be shifting a bit."

Quince Orchard Road between Darnestown Road and Pawnee Drive could be closed for several days.

"It may be several days as engineers and inspectors need to check it," Gaithersburg Police Department spokesman Dan Lane said in an email.

Below is a map in the area of the road closure.

See a report from NBC Washington:

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by CHRIS INGALLS / KING 5 News

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Posted on March 28, 2014 at 5:47 PM

Updated yesterday at 8:46 PM

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A University of Washington professor says, after talking with the people who built a retaining wall at the base of the slope, he no longer thinks it was a factor in the slide.

Im probably pretty confident now that it was not a contributing factor, geologist Dave Montgomery told KING 5 on Friday.

The day before, Montgomery said that the image could show evidence that the Stillaguamish river was undermining the slope.

The image, photographed by a Google Earth satellite in July of 2013, clearly shows the log revetment," a retaining wall built by the Stillaguamish Tribe to keep sediments from the unstable hillside from harming salmon runs in the river.

At the northwest end of the wooden wall there is a jumble of logs and a crescent shape gap where the river appears to have cut into the slope.

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