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;~ <br />- ~~~ <br />ffiJ~ 96-90, 96-91 <br />movstents and will, in fact, provide a clear affi pmrnora>ced <br />manifestation of even minor subsidence. <br />(letter to Appellants, dated May 23, 1995, at 4.) He later explained the <br />absence of any evidence of distress in the foiar]ation on the basis that the <br />foundation atld the overlying adobe structure had trr.~ved in tasndsnn, but' that <br />the distress urea exhibited only in the relatively fsagile adobe stsucRnre <br />and nr~ in the fonaxiation: <br />[B]ecause of the lar3c of tensile capacity and Tpinforciug <br />within adobe structtues, they will quickly a~ srnetimes <br />dsarnetically exhibit cracJsirng and separation distrrss if the <br />ori9~al ~~ 9~~~Y is distorted. tAllaloe ootnventional <br />reinforced concrete, steel or timber structures which have <br />an ability to resist, bridge or radistrilute loads, and thus <br />minimize visible signs of distress, adobe stilncturps immedi- <br />ately tell you if saaethi:g is moving. <br />(Marona[md<amn to Appellants, dated. JSame 30, 1995, at 3-4.) In his May 23, <br />1995, letter to appellants, Reins stated at page 4 that he agreed with <br />the opinion of the Tattnms' other ooneultants that mine subsidence was the <br />"likely realm for mnu~n of the damage to the hawse." in his subsequent <br />J1II1e 30, 1995, he stated at page 3: <br />Apparently, the umrierlying prt3nise which prarmgts Mt. <br />Perxiletm to reject the notion that subsidence has occurred is <br />that these is no knoum foundatim distress. In cur practice <br />we routinely observe fauidatican systems that e~d»bit no sig- <br />nificant distress despite pxn~xmunoed (many inches) heave ar <br />settlement. In this particular instance we estimate that the <br />fou~datim movsttellts are not particularly substantial. As <br />such, the foundatim system far the house is simmply "going <br />almg for the side.,, <br />Pblloc~ri~ curQletion of briefi:g in the case, the Tartars filed <br />with the Hoard m February 26, 1998, a s~planaltal exhibit, designated <br />by than as FSdubit A-15, in support of thefr posit3cm that r[dne subsi- <br />demtce caused dairage to their hone amt that OSM acted irtproperly in findi.rr3 <br />LNG's reap~nse to the 'iLN to be appzt~riata:. T2~aC exhibit is a copy of <br />a decision issued Can December 1, 1997, by the; District Hurt, Oaanty of <br />las Anitmnas, (bloxado, in the matter Styled .Taiiwv f Tim1 Tattarm and Atat 'Farman <br />v. -win x.irms, TII --, lJO, 92 N 127. 1172Lt?iII, District Jtrckje Jesse <br />~g fQlIIld, inter alia, that <br />[e]vidence at trawl established that extensive tuldezgrvund <br />coal mini ~ operations were ootrc~cted aeaz'; and unles the <br />plaintiffs('] pznpezty line aml within 30D feet of their resi- <br />damce. Stnbsidmanoe was evident in various locations m the <br />Zatum prvpext}~, incltmdisng the railrnaA tracaCS na><ilitg <br />151 ~Lt- 306 " <br />