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Geologists report new land shifts at North Salt Lake landslide site

By Taylor Hintz, Standard-Examiner Staff - | Apr 15, 2016

NORTH SALT LAKE — The Utah Geological survey has detected land movement in two areas where a landslide in 2014 destroyed a hillside residence and damaged a tennis club.

KSL and KUTV report that the two spots, one behind a home on Parkway Drive and another above the Eagleridge Tennis and Swim Club parking lot, were found to have shifted a total of six inches since October. The Utah Geological survey has been monitoring the site since the landslide.


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North Salt Lake Mayor Len Arave said the shift was detected at about five feet under the surface, much shallower than the movement at 80 feet below the surface that caused the landslide. “The main body of the landslide is very stable,” Arave told KUTV.

KSL reports that the Utah geological Survey installed GPS monitoring points throughout the landslide area as crews began repairs on the hillside last year.

According to information from the Utah Geological Survey about the slide, the landslide mass was about 500 feet wide and 500 feet long, which moved down the hill “several tens of feet.” A 60-foot high scarp emerged on the engineered slope, once part of a gravel pit that had been reclaimed and partially developed into the Eaglepointe subdivision.

North Salt Lake City and Eaglepointe Development were sued in April 2015 by the damaged tennis club, which claimed that both knew the hillside was unstable but proceeded to develop anyway. The developers continue to be involved in lawsuits, according to KUTV.

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