Constructed and dedicated solely to vital records and information protection, the Perpetural Storage vault combines the best of modern security protection with an understanding of the needs and concerns for a disaster recovery program for modern business and government.

• The vault is centered deep in a granite mountain, protected by its unique location from floods, earthquakes, fires, and man-made disasters.
• By virtue of the vault's location within the granite mountain, temperature and humidity remain constant and meet or exceed all federal requirements for archival storage.
• The vault's unique fire retardant construction is supported by both ionization detectors and the latest fire supression extinguishers.
• Perpetual Storage has four sources of electric power in case of disaster.

Located in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah.
The vault is situated near the base of the steep north wall of the east-west oriented Little Cottonwood Canyon, that was carved into a massive body of granite by geologically recent glacial erosion. All soil and weathered crumbly granite has been scoured off so that fresh hard rock in the interior of the granite body is now exposed at the vault entrance. Now only minor and infrequent rock falls occur along the clean, scoured canyon wall. The hardness and toughness of the granite*, together with the generally wide spacing (2 feet or more) of joints in it, has qualified the rock as a favorable building stone for many nearby buildings, and the Salt Lake Mormon Temple.

The vault entrance is approximately 250 feet above the bed of Little Cottonwood Creek, and is therefore safely above any possible flooding because of spring runoffs. The massive, tough, sparsely jointed granite would probably behave as a monolithic entity (one solid piece of rock) that would suffer little internal deformation or damage to the vault interior during an earthquake.

In summary, the vault is geologically a favorable storage facility because of its location within the interior of a body of hard, tough granite, and because there is little or no potential hazards from floods, gravity-induced rock falls, and earthquakes.