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Jerry,Goldrushcam Photographer
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 7:59 am: | |
After attending the Mariposa Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday and a business trip into Turlock
we came across this tired little guy in the photo above outside of Snelling and felt just as tired 
Our last stop was to the Incident Command Center in Mariposa to ask why no current photos of the slide was posted on the their site.
Behold ! New photos had been put up during the day on the sheriff site. Go somewhere for a few hours and miss out!
A big thanks to Anon for the post yesterday for the info and the links to the current photos !! |
Jerry,Goldrushcam Photographer
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 8:04 am: | |
On the Mariposa Sheriff Site there is a link to Cal Trans Video of the slide.
It does not work for us !
How about you ?
http://www.mariposacounty.org/sheriff/Rock%20Slide%20May%2029%202006.htm
Look later for what took place at the Mariposa Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday. |
Jerry,Goldrushcam Photographer
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 11:03 am: | |
Okay, now the live video is working by opening up windows media player, copying and pasting the URL into where it says file and enter URL.
That is the work around we had to use to get the file to play !
Here is the link:
http://svhqmsmedia1.dot.ca.gov/oasis4 |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 2:02 pm: | |
Cedar Lodge...in Danger ?
Cedar Lodge :
http://www.yosemitemotels.com/cedarlodge/index.htm
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Geologists examine slide : June 13, 2006
Excerpt from : http://www.modbee.com/local/story/12312519p-13046150c.html
....geologists spent the past week trying to determine what would happen if the river, which runs along the highway, were blocked by walls of rock that were either 50, 100 or 350 feet high.
The geologists determined the 350-foot scenario wasn't possible, but if a 100-foot rock wall became a reality, the water would create a reservoir that would extend upstream as far as Cedar Lodge. DeGraff also said the nearby community of Savage Trading Post would be most affected.
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According to estimates created by the Army Corps of Engineers, a rock Dam over 50-feet would eventually back up the Merced River enough to Flood CEDAR LODGE.
Satellite Photo :
http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=14&Z=11&X=77&Y=1303&W=1&qs=%7cMariposa%7cCA%7c
Topo
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=11&X=78&Y=1304&W=2&qs=%7cel+portal%7cca%7c
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JerryGoldrushcam Photographer
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 10:42 pm: | |
Here is a quick update on the Ferguson Slide meeting tonight at the Bug Hostel;
http://www.goldrushcam.com/sierra_sun_times__mariposa.htm |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 11:44 pm: | |
A 100 foot Rock Slide dam = 4,000 acre feet of water backed up.
* How Much is an Acre Foot of Water?
1.0 acre foot = 325,851 gallons
4,000 acre feet = over 1,300,000,000 gallons
[that is over a Billion gallons of water]
*(a thousand millions = a Billion)
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CALTRANS may risk it ?
CALTRANS has plans in place for a scenario for
a bridge to cross the river and then back to the 140.
* They could have a bridges in place within 90 days.
Note : If the Rock Slide comes down across the river,
only a few people will die (who happen to be driving
there at the time) and at least
the road would be open until that happens.
Everybody seemed happy.
:-) ?
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Jerry,Goldrushcam Photographer
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 8:12 am: | |
Hi Anon,
No, CalTrans said they would not risk anything if there was doubt about the slide moving.
And that is there best rate time frame!
And about the 100 foot dam.
The water would reach the top of the slide in the water and then go over the top of that and then would start scouring away the dirt thus reducing the height of the dam. If this happens later and later into the summer the time to fill the dam would take longer as the inflow into the Merced slows down. Right now they figure the residents would have an hour or more to leave because of the higher flows.
And for clarification the 4,000 acre feet was a scenario for a total blockage without seepage and then totally breaking down at once thus filling the river bed with all that water. They said Bagby and below would not be affected by that amount of water moving downstream at once.
The BLM has complete control over the campgrounds by Briceburg as when they want to close them. |
Jerry,Goldrushcam Photographer
| | Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 8:14 am: | |
Anon,
No, No one was happy as this meeting.
Including business owners, residents, park workers
and others |
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