Soggy weather triggers landslide

Saturated soils likely led to a massive

landslide on Lookout Ridge near Big Mountain, City Manager Chuck

Stearns reported at the June 6 council meeting.

The crown of the slide was about 60

feet wide and 10 feet deep. It ran about 300 vertical feet along a

swath about 1,000 feet in length.

“It was an impressive land movement,”

Stearns said.

Lookout Ridge is a proposed development

on the flanks of Big Mountain near Iron Horse. The slide has

blocked a city maintained road that is used as the emergency egress

for Iron Horse. No structures were damaged and no injuries were

reported.

The slide started on private land that

is a natural spring area, Public Works Director John Wilson

noted.