Expansive and Collapsible Soil in Phoenix Area (Scottsdale, Peoria: homes, buyers)

[altus2006]

Recently I discovered that the Phoenix area has some major soil problems in some of the housing areas. Hundreds, and some reports say thousands, of home buyers have been affected and are now holding on to homes that are worthless.

If one Googles for collapsible and expansive soil and Phoenix, there is a wealth of information, including free government maps of the areas with the soil problems.

I will be paying a lot of attention to these affected areas and plan to not buy into a problem area when purchasing my home.

All of this soil problem is a publicly known issue and many news and television reports have been done on the topic.

Although I have been visiting my parents in Scottsdale for over 25 years, I was not aware of the soil problem until just the past week.

This link shows the soil map for Phoenix.

ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/AZ/phxshrinkswell.pdf (broken link)

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[Judy P.]

Thanks for the info!!! It sure will be a big help to me in purchasing a home!

[Great Joy]

We didn't know about this either until after we had bought our home and lived here for awhile. Thank God we bought in Vistancia in northern Peoria where the soil risk is low (good).

[Greatday]

Here is some up to date information regarding this issue:

http://www.azwater.gov/dwr/Content/H...issuretest.pdf

AZGS | EF Planning Maps (broken link)

[altus2006]

Greatday,

I had forgotten about the fissures. It makes the scorpions seem like a small matter!

altus2006