If the job was in the county, he would have authority under Haywood's slope development law.

Repairs to the mountaintop will be made with more oversight this time, including a state-mandated erosion control plan.

About six months ago, the park hired another engineer to oversee more stabilization work on the very top of the mountain. The slide happened after heavy rain on Feb. 5.

A 5-foot-tall wall longer than 50 feet needs only an engineered building plan. An inspector would review the plan and possibly the construction while the wall is being built. But, in the end, the inspector would rely on the engineer to say the wall is safe.

A state geologist said the material from the retaining wall system contributed to the slide.

Haywood County government, which recently took over building inspections for Maggie Valley, will be in charge of any new inspection.

County Engineer Mark Shumpert said he might get a look at the plan, if the town asks for advice. “That's kind of tricky because officially I have no jurisdiction there,” he said.

The state would likely require a sedimentation control plan before the site is repaired, said Janet Boyer, regional engineer with the N.C. Division of Land Resources.

That's because Maggie Valley, which has jurisdiction in the area, doesn't have a slope development law stronger than the state building codes for retaining walls.

That law would require a soil compaction test to show that the base of the wall was setting on what engineers call “native ground” to make sure it's not being built on potentially unstable fill.

The park in 2007 didn't have a county- or city- issued building permit for the wall system. It's unclear whether one would have been required, or whether it would have mattered.

The rules for building a retaining wall — whether at the coast or holding back 20,000 tons of earth on a mountaintop — are the same statewide.

What's known about that development activity is the park in 2007 hired a contractor to build a geo-grid system of terraced retaining walls in front of an older timber-built wall that was failing.

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