Building on the edge of natural areas comes with risks, including wildfires and landslides. Colorado Springs will try to discover the extent of the risk from the latter at the western edge of the city.
The city of Colorado Springs has procrastinated long enough it seems, and will finally take on an expensive study of the Cheyenne Mountain landslide complex, which is two miles long and impacting housing developments and a golf course.
"Colorado Springs is undertaking a $500,000 study of the enormous Cheyenne Mountain landslide complex, nearly 1½ years after being urged to do so quickly by the Colorado Geological Study," reports Billie Stanton Anleu.
In April 2016, State Geologist Karen Berry was quoted warning the city that "[l]ittle is known about the depth of the landslide, its rate of movement, the aerial extent of movement, or the toe of past and current slope movement," but the landslide could be "extensive."
A 500-year storm exacerbated the landslide in May 2015.
FULL STORY: Colorado Springs commissions study of massive landslide complex
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