Haywood County Landslides

Update on Rich Cove/Ghost Town Landslide

Submitted by usna77 on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 7:20am

From this morning's Mountaineer newspaper in Waynesville. The Town of Maggie Valley has awarded a $1.3+ million contract for cleanup and slope stabilization of the landslide in the Rich Cove area near Ghost Town in Maggie Valley. Residents at the head of Rich Cove Road have been out of their homes since the slide in February.

The newspaper's online edition will probably post the story sometime later today.

Haywood County Commissioners Acknowledge Need for Landslide Hazard Maps

Submitted by Lynne Vogel on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 4:44pm

The Board of Commissioners disclosed during their February 2, 2009 meeting that landslides are serious threats to Haywood County residents.

In their petition to the General Assembly for hazard mapping the Commissioners stressed the fact that “Haywood County has experienced numerous landslides in recent years, with two in the first month of 2009.” The Board requests that Haywood County be hazard-mapped at “the state’s earliest opportunity.” In an unusual move the Commissioners asked for a state-funded landslide insurance program.

History of Haywood County Hazardous Land Development

Maggie Valley/Haywood County Real Estate Landslide Losses

Submitted by Lynne Vogel on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 4:49pm
So you have fallen in love with Maggie Valley, and you’re ready to buy or build your mountain dream home. How do you choose? The answer is: carefully.

What you don’t know and what your realtor isn't required to tell you is that landslides have caused and will continue to result in catastrophic property losses in Maggie Valley and throughout the county. Sometimes they are deadly.

Property values in Wild Acres and in other Haywood County mountain developments will be adversely affected by media reporting of two tragic events: one old, the other recent. Geologic hazards that were rarely discussed are now in the headlines.

Wild Acres

Haywood County Fails to Protect Homeowners from Landslide

Submitted by Lynne Vogel on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 6:32am

Tragedy always stirs the media and occasionally awakens dozing regulators.

The recent tragedy: a 300 foot-landslide that flattened a three story Maggie Valley, North Carolina residence on Wildcat Run Road. Bruce and Lorraine Donin, who were at home, survived. Rick Wooten, a senior geologist for the N.C. Geological Survey who investigated the site, said “It wasn’t so much that the house that was destroyed was located on a steep slope, it just got hit by a landslide that would have knocked any house over that wasn’t bombproof.”

Is the County Responsible for the Donins’ Property Loss?

No State Rule Book for Hazardous Land Development

Submitted by Lynne Vogel on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 8:13pm

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