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Resident describes basement flooding from hillside; city attorney outlines permitting limits for retaining walls
Summary
A Washington City resident described repeated basement flooding and falling rocks tied to a gypsum rock wall above his home; city legal counsel said the municipal code requires permits and engineered retaining walls but does not specify acceptable stone types or materials and many neighbor disputes become civil matters. Staff will follow up with code enforcement.
Resident Kent Stokes described eroding foundations, a high gypsum rock wall above his property and repeated basement flooding; he said large rocks have fallen and that attempts to get help from code enforcement and previous mayors had not resolved the problem. “I haul them away and then they do it again,” Stokes said, asking the council for assistance rather than being placed in a…
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