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<br />County <br /> <br />" <br />01 <br /> <br />Mineral <br /> <br />Moffat <br /> <br />Montezuma <br /> <br />Community/Area <br /> <br />Lamplite Park subdivision <br />landslide <br /> <br />Vega Reservoir area <br /> <br />Buzzard Creek <br /> <br />Wolf Creek <br /> <br />Dunkley Pass <br /> <br />Mesa Verde access road <br />slides, on ascent to <br />mesa level <br /> <br />Type of Slide <br /> <br />Complex rotational <br />failure <br /> <br />Shallow translational <br />landslides in clayey <br />co 11 uvium and <br />bedrock. <br /> <br />Usually thin trans- <br />lational landslides <br />(many) <br /> <br />Numerous landslides <br />and debris flows <br /> <br />Landslides <br /> <br />Complex slides at <br />several locations <br />by fa il ure of <br />massive sandstone <br />ledges that fail <br />and move out with <br />underlying soft <br />shales. Repeated <br />failures at same or <br />similar locations <br />during the past 15 <br />years, <br /> <br />facilities at Risk <br /> <br />Several houses, city <br />utilities <br /> <br />Roads, utility lines. <br />Possible formation of land- <br />slide dams which would <br />flood residential/agri- <br />cultural areas and <br />hcil ities. <br /> <br />Pipelines and other <br />utilities. Some low-value <br />buildings. <br /> <br />U.S. Highway 160 <br /> <br />County road <br /> <br />Results in closure and lost <br />access via the dead-end road <br />to Mesa Verde National Park. <br />Can result in severe <br />economic 'impacts to Cortez <br />area. Reconstruction is <br />costly and alternative <br />routing should be explored. <br /> <br />Activity <br /> <br />Preliminary geo- <br />logic studies <br />performed. Thir- <br />teen houses fore- <br />closed on; to be <br />removed. Second <br />phase of studies <br />to commence <br />shortly. <br /> <br />c <br />o <br />N <br />00 <br />en <br />c:::> <br /> <br />Geologic study <br />in progress. . <br />Landslide age and <br />potential for <br />continued acti- <br />evaluated. <br /> <br />Subject of <br />regional land- <br />slide inventory <br />by CGS. <br /> <br />Clean-up as <br />necessary. COGH <br />has done some ex- <br />perimental berm- <br />ing of slides. <br /> <br />No action <br />