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Inadequate drainage and water seepage has caused monsoonal runoffs to pass through the delicately carved stone reliefs, slowly but surely destroying and cracking the panels. This process of oxydization deposits a hard layer that covers the porous reliefs with mould (not unlike smallpox), eating away at them. The foundation must be reinforced and the lower galleries completely dismantled section by section and rebuilt on a solid foundation with adequate drainage. The whole restoration project has fallen prey to bureacratic ineptitude, corruption, and financial mismanagement. Although begun in 1969, the project will probably cost another US$20 million and last for 10 more years, even though Borobudur may not.