Following landslide damage, homeowners are generally limited to three sources of money for repairs. Those three sources are an insurance company, themselves or a governmental agency. Patrick E. Catalano is quoted in the article.
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The city has agreed to fund an effort to drain water from the sliding hillside, to continue to petition the federal government for relief for homeowners, and to share data with the homeowners from ongoing geological investigations conducted by the city. Patrick E. Catalano is quoted in the article.
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An outside engineering firm hired by the city has bored a hole into the landslide area large enough for a geologist to be lowered into to begin investigating the cause of the landslide. Patrick E. Catalano is referenced in the article.
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