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'~ <br />again act aspseudo-levees, constricting flood flow. Waters just below the constriction <br />will burst sideways and hit 83-year-old Bill Ortiz or sever Highway 145. <br />Finally, take all 28 finished or projected gravel pit ponds beriveen Twin Spruce and <br />Sunnyside and put them in a crap shoot where in a random flood the Dolores will seek <br />the line of least zesistance and capture a sequence of our man-made holes. The weakened <br />floodplain from so many pits together could shift the entire river channel to God knows <br />where. The river could make its final run through downtown Dolores. And all that <br />disturbed, exposed floodplain could end up at the bottom of McPhee, reducing its storage <br />capacity overnight. <br />Conclusion: mine gravel elsewhere. The Colorado Geological Survey has said it might <br />find funds to map al] tl~e Haycamp gravels if the County requests it. It is gravel about a <br />million years old, and not so choice as Dolores River gravel. But in this case that would <br />be the wiser choice. <br />~l~~~v/~m~~~ <br />