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Title: February 4, 1970 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: February 4, 1970 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 12 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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* igi Me ESE a AES OEE Beptty ie 8 RMAs Creeping sea of mud covers Cascade Shores road section A creeping sea of mud has completely covered a Section Earth in this area has some unusual characteristics, ofof road in Cascade Shores, and there is evidence of other erosficials of the local U. S. Soil Conservation Service office exion in other parts of the subdivision, plained. The mountain terrain includes several types of soils January's incessant rains eroded the bare bank beside including two or three types of lava flow, Lynn Brittan, soils the road, causing an incalculable quantity of storm-soaked scientist, said. earth to slide across the pavement, The mud is from a foot to several feet thick and exSome types of the soil are more firm and more resistant tends perhaps 200 feet along the pavement. to movement than others, he added. "In the looser, less consolIt is squishy like a sponge, and when a rock was dropped ree re under heavy rain conditions which we've had into the mud, it sank to the bottom with a plopping sound simthis month, t's liable to move -which is what h ned," j j im ilar to that made by a boulder falling into a body of water, he said. 3 eee An international image The bank from which: this mud came iS still eroding and : A good neighbor threatening to send more mud onto the road. So are other Brittan added this explanation of what happens when soil A df iend banks beside some other roads in the subdivision where smaller that is not gripping the bank firmly enough starts to slip and good Irien amounts of water-logged dirt have washed down, but in insufslide: : _ ficient quantity to cover the roads and ‘prevent passage. Little. "The soil almost becomes fluid, Gravity overcomes natureS _ rocks have splattered onto some spots, al adherence of particle against particle, and it eventually ‘An inspection tour by this reporter and Ken Gordon of the moves.” , county planning» commission indicated that these banks are At Cascade Shores, some earth did not have enough fine "euts" made by the developers, Quaker Hill Development Co,, material to cement it to the bank, Brittan said. in building the subdivision roads, The cuts are steep, and they This was recognized by soil conservation officials as the : are bare of foliage. development was being planned, and they submitted reports Th The banks running beside many of these roads were visibly to the planning commission on each unit, ke: . logged ‘with water at midweek, and slippage was seen in several The report on the unit. at which the major slide occurred, Welgome Wagon places, written in March, 1966, calls erosion danger in that area Hostess with : How this erosion will be halted and who will clean up the "severe." The Most Famous Basket in mess made on the mud-covered road are not known. This and The report adds that the amount of or lack of erosion would the World® other roads in Cascade Shores have been accepted into the be "dependent upon ground cover, The greatest hazard (will be) county. road system, on the steepest slopes -especially if ground cover is removed The Union has learned that warnings of erosion danger or disturbed." CALL in this area were presented when various units of Cascade As noted earlier, the banks cut to build roads have been Shores came before the county planning commission, starting left bare, Whatever ground cover was once there is gone, and (aS oe in 1965, ) none has been planted to replace it. biome mie Gene Andreuccetti, head of the local SCS unit, said planting My 2a 9. ti Cascade Shores is located in the area of the old Quaker vegetation can help hold banks, but it often is not enough on steep Hill Diggins easterly. from Nevada City above Upper Scotts slopes, "You lessen the chance for erosion by flattening the Ph 275-8994 Flat Reservoir. In fact, the damaged road is only a few hundred slopes," he said, meaning making them less up and down and gets ' feet fromthe former hydraulic mining site. _ more atia sloping angle. , of P aris Se ~ A 4 SG Se eS LA MORE nti pi +S ; aight ae BF FILE BEL wae Bt < Fi % = ts JS MUS OSTS2 Se LAW, Fy “ weer cer rere PP EET LS ee ey o's RRR RRR us “* qt G ‘ ny oe roe Te a BONN dee ow Fok . NIT MOORS CRAG SE Gale aT Al Te By &