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NORTH SALT LAKE — Emotions are high after disasters, in light of North Salt Lake’s landslide.
“There’s nothing more disturbing than being displaced, or having your home disrupted by a catastrophe such as this,” Jaren Davis said.
The executive officer of the Salt Lake Home Builders Association says landslides are rare, and cities and developers do extra work in “sensitive areas” to prevent them.
Professional engineers monitor roads, undergrounds, and the homes themselves, among other things.
To be sure, Davis says hillside neighborhoods, just like costal neighborhoods, won’t vanish.
“Mankind continues to have the desire to occupy and find ways to build safe structures in those environments and call that little place of the world home,” Davis said.
You can check old news reports online about certain areas, and ask city hall for records and studies.
That includes “the extra work that was required, the reporting that was done, and the construction that is to be done to satisfy the needs that are found by the engineer for protection,” Davis said.
One home was completely destroyed, and four others were deemed unsafe, when a mountainside collapsed on Parkway Drive early Tuesday.
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