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Recent rain has led to some erosion and slight land movement at the site of a 2014 slide in North Salt Lake, according to city officials.
Although the movement is a concern, the conditions are not the same as when the massive slide sent rocks and mud tumbling down on a subdivision below two years ago, City Engineer Paul Ottoson said Thursday.
Ottoson said the current movement, which is the result of recent rain, is on the surface of the land. The ground in question has been seeded, but there is no vegetation protecting it yet, he said.
The erosion might lead to a little mud landing in someone's yard farther down the steep slope, Ottoson said, but "it's not a landslide."
North Salt Lake is scheduled to host a status update from GeoStrata Engineering and Geosciences at its City Council meeting Tuesday.
Heavy overnight rains on Aug. 5, 2014, triggered the landslide that began in the vicinity of 750 S. Parkway Drive in Eaglepointe Estates early and led to the evacuation of more than two dozen families.
The collapse of a hillside devastated the subdivision, destroying one home and damaging a tennis club and other property. No one was injured.
In the months leading up to the landslide, residents had complained of cracks in the top of the slope that collapsed. North Salt Lake officials had been monitoring for landslides by placing instruments designed to detect ground shifts into holes on the slope.
The subdivision's developer said at the time that all earthwork in the development surrounding the slide had been performed "based upon standard protocols, recommendations and approvals from several independent engineering companies as well as the geotechnical engineers representing North Salt Lake."
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