Logan wants canal lots: City seeks to buy land affected by landslide

(Herald Journal) Logan is looking to buy properties on Canyon Road affected in last summer's landslide.

The properties include the empty lot at 915 Canyon Road, where once stood the house of Jacqueline Leavey and her children, and a lot immediately west where now stands a small apartment building that's been condemned.

The city plans to buy another house farther west that is removed from the slide zone and was not damaged.

The purchases are part of the plan to stabilize the blown-out hillside, said city spokeswoman Teresa Harris.

Logan Public Works Director Mark Nielsen said the state Department of Transportation will likely do the rehabilitation work, which could include clearing out the scattered concrete remnants of the ruptured canal, as well as the many downed trees. UDOT owns part of the hillside above the canal.

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