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Provo Mayor Michelle Kaufusi speaks on the city's response to Buckley Draw landslide
A rainstorm on the night of Aug. 27 hit the Buckley Draw burn scar and sent the charred soil sludging down the canyon. A debris channel at the base of the canyon diverted the landslide away from private homes, but when the channel ended, debris went over a development and road and onto a Latter-day Saints chapel below. Water flow events have also occurred since, and at least one temporarily closed Slate Canyon Road and Nevada Avenue. Provo residents have questioned whether the city did enough to mitigate the mudslide and subsequent flooding. Many pointed to the excavated development, ...
