In the case of your story, it flows underneath, where it always flowed.
A high rise apartment building was built locally over a marshy area over which developers trucked in huge loads of dirt to bury and solidify for the building foundation. Almost immediately the building, an eleven story modern looking (for the sixties) abode of bachelors and jet setter types, began to sink. It continues to sink. Walls crack, foundation cracks, gaps appear, and it continues to sink. Hasn't been condemed or declared uninhabitable yet, but that is coming.
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In another twist of developers ignoring nature, our old hoy filoy hood of old money is called the Broadmoor. Mansions of all kinds built on enormous fully landscaped properties. A new developer eyed land south of the Broadmoor on the slopes of Cheyenne Mountain. Bought and developed. Ignored the USGS warning the slope was a land slip in more or less constant movement. The developer is long gone now, and multimillion dollar homes in the uppity hoy filoy new Broadmoor are being torn apart by the slow creep of the land slip.
Virtually every house and building you see in this photo is built on the land slip, and is being destroyed. The higher, the faster.
Furthermore the south- left side of this mountain is location of NORAD, now Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base. First to go in a nuclear attack.
None of this can be fixt. None of it should ever have been allowed. But you know how money talks.
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