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Memo to Susan McCannon Tatum Residence Second Inspection page 2 window of the southern bedroom on the second floor. The continued invasion of water appears to be buckling the plaster skin from the walls on both the interior and exterior of the southeast corner of the structure. In several locations such as the second story bedrooms and the eastern wall of the first story, the beams supporting the second floor and the roof appear to be settling in the walls, as though the adobe had softened sufficiently to flow around the beam, resulting in a wrinkling of the interior and exterior plaster skin coat. I observed an interesting feature in the small porch located in the southeast corner on the first floor. A door at the bottom of the stairs to the second story exits from the living room onto the 4 X 8 foot sandstone veneered concrete slab porch floor. This small porch floor lies inside the structures outer two-story adobe walls. Approximately 3 feet from the northern end of the east-facing wall adjoining the patio, a linear "disturbed zone" exists on the adobe wall. The plaster has fallen off the wall leaving an exposed zone of the underlying adobe up to an inch wide. The adobe has eroded deeply enough to expose straw fibers within the original adobe. There is no crack in the concrete slab floor beneath this "disturbed zone". The adobe wall appears to be deteriorating solely because of the affects of water which has invaded the adobe wall structure and percolated two stories to bottom of the inner porch wall. Following the examination tour, Dr. Kohli discussed the situation with Carl Gerity for approximately an hour. During the approximately half of the discussion to which I listened, Kewal stated his preliminary opinion concerning subsidence. Dr. Kohli stated that he did not consider the stress being suffered by the Tatum's house to be mining related. cc: Mike Rosenthal, OSM Randy Price Joe Dudash Mike Long, Director Doc: M:\COAL\JAP\TATUM2.INS JP/1P