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RECOMMENDATIONS <br />It is my recommendation that for the soil found in the present cuts <br />and fills, no cut or fill exceed 1:1 (100$) or 4U feet and that <br />drainage along the roads be kept maintained and open. Although the <br />calculated safety factors for the road cuts and fills are <br />sufficiently high to meet the published minimum standards, <br />non-homoge::ious soil and the increased pore pressure caused by <br />saturation of the soil especially in the Spring can cause changes in <br />the soil structure, local fractures, and other factors that would <br />lower the calculated safety factor and could reduce the strength of <br />the soil along the shear plane to below 1.0 resulting in failure. A <br />cut or fill that is greater than these limits could decrease the <br />factor of safety to a level possibly below a reasonable factor of <br />safety and therefore should be analyzed as a special case. None of <br />the present road cuts or fills exceed the criteria as analyzed <br />herein. <br />