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March 26, 2015

Wyo. landslide moves slowly, but so does a fix

  • Talks continue on how to pay for a $8-10 million buttress to hold back the creeping mass that has split one house and threatens more in Jackson.
    • By MEAD GRUVER
    Associated Press

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The town of Jackson and property owners continue to negotiate how they might divvy up the multimillion-dollar cost to stop once and for all a slow-moving landslide that for a few weeks last April threatened to wipe out dozens of homes and apartments and a few businesses.

    Mediated talks between town officials, homeowners and the Walgreen Co. last fall failed to yield an agreement to fund a project to remove earth from the top of the landslide and build a buttress at the bottom to hold back the creeping mass of earth.


     
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