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Draper residents and public works employees used sandbags to protect homes near Corner Canyon June 20. About eight inches of mud flowed down the hillside, through yards, into homes and down the street in Bear Ridge Cove on June 17. The Draper City Public Works department provided heavy equipment and cleaned up tons of mud for the second time in three days in Bear Ridge Cove on June 20.
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Draper residents and public works employees used sandbags to protect homes near Corner Canyon June 20.
Storm, flood and mudslide: “It could have been a lot worse”
by Marsha Maxwell
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A looming threat turned into disaster for two Bear Ridge Cove families as mud and water from the hillside above their homes flowed into basements and garages the night of June 17. A second stor...


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