Geologist says ‘sinking homes’ in KCMO shouldn’t surprise builder

Within a couple weeks, families who lived in the duplexes in Falcon Falls felt their homes start to collapse. The only choice left was to demolish.

Those displaced families don’t understand why the homes were built in the first place. UMKC Geologist Dr. Richard Gentile helped demystify the collapse for this 41 Action News story.


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