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Lance Bandley ReportingNorth Salt Lake residents with homes that are sliding are gathering up evidence. They want the city to investigate and eventually take responsibility for with regards to the damage to their homes.
Cracked walls, a buckled driveway, and several other problems are what Dauneen Abel and her husband face every day in their home of 30 years.
"It's caused some house movement and they want to condemn ours," says Abel.
Abel says residents in the area have gathered up facts on why the damage is being done to their homes. Residents say excavation of a gravel pit started to loosen the dirt and then there were major water problems.
"We didn't have any trouble during the first twenty years. But when they started moving the stream routs, that's when we started having trouble," says Abel.
City leaders say the development was built in the 1970s and it's impossible to predict what the land will do 30 years in to the future. Officials say studies show no impact by the gravel pit.
