Sharksbaja
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A yard an hour
Someone once told me they expected their guys on the crew should be able to remove or shovel a yard of dirt an hour per person.
My kitchen looks like it has about 6-8 yds in there alone. It looks about 2-3' ft deep. At that rate I can see the time involved.
I have heard the varying reports on the amounts of solids deposited along the rivers path. I was wondering how deep it was in different places in
different parks and upstream. How deep is it at the deepest spots? Thanks. Manzana? Bruce? Marv?
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Bruce R Leech
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Corky it varies allot , even in your own house it is more than 8 feet deep in some places and nothing in others. the water currants around make a big
deference . at your house you got more sand than mud and others got only mud.
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QuePasaBaja
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If not for having a little boy. ( 1 year 3 months ) we would be headed down to help out with what we could.
It sucks to know about people that need, help, and all we can do is donate items.
Have a Baja Day
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comitan
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Sharks
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EngineerMike
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I personally toured near the entrance to Jorge's, in a detailed way in the easterly half of the Oasis, and the grounds of the Serenidad.
Mud in the two parks varies from zero to 2 feet. The deposition seems mostly to have taken place where the flow rate was low, which unfortunatley
translates to inside and around houses for the most part, as the walls slowed the water, tho there are some "streets" where flow also seems to have
been slow and deposition occurred.
There are plenty of road surfaces where the pre-flood shell packing is the current surface plus or minus a half inch or so. Water movement there was
sufficient to take the erosion products with it and leave a relatively clean look.
At Serenidad where there was ~6" (not enough to get into the restaurante or (gracias a Dios) the bar) which couldn't be moving very fast at that
height, but did contain a component of unsettled fine erosion particles. As the water slowed, then receded the small amount there deposited leaving
maybe 1/2" wet mud, which translates to ~1/8th" dry stuff.
By Jorge's, e.g., the agua purificada building is somewhat hammered apart, but pretty much clean as a whistle. Flow rate there could reasonably be
classified as raging. I didn't get into the southern fringe of Jorge's, which woulda been somewhat of a backwater, but I'd guess there are spots
there with a lotta mud, and likewise at the Orchard.
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