By Billie Stanton Anleu, The Gazette
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.
The study will be conducted by Yeh and Associates Inc. of Denver, and the city will split the cost with Colorado Springs Utilities, city councilman Don Knight said.
The landslide complex runs from the base of Cheyenne Mountain to the east almost 2 miles, according to State Geologist Karen Berry, director of the Colorado Geological Survey.
The Broadmoor South Golf Course, also known as the Mountain Golf Course, is on the landslide complex, as are parts of surrounding development. The golf course has been closed for more than two years, another victim of the 500-year record rains of May 2015 that triggered landslides on the city’s western half.
“The risk of landslides and ground instability will always be present” in the Cheyenne Mountain scarp area, CGS Senior Engineering Geologist Jonathan White said during a presentation last week at the convention of the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists.
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