The Standard Examiner reported this morning about a home that was demolished by the County due to landslide problems.
The 6,000 SQFT home was built in 2001 in Mountain Green.
Geologic hazards are not new to developers in Utah. I wrote about a bunch of them here. What baffles me is that developers do not do sufficient due diligence to predict where these types of events will occur. I am unsure whether it is a prohibitive cost or if mother nature is simply too unpredictable to make the extra testing meaningful.
Anyway, my heart goes out to this widow to lost her home. Let it be a warning to all of us who try to push the envelope by risking building on geologically active ground.
Photo Courtesy the Standard Examiner
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