Re: D&S Washout

Our place is next to the Silverton branch and on my deeds it cites the railroad land as owned by the D&RGW. Isn't the 'standard' ROW width 100 feet? I read somewhere it is nd it certainly looks that way from the La Plate County map.

I am not certain if there was a culvert at the washout. There certainly is above Pine Acres, the grey blocks Jerry writes about, and while that held, there was some flooding at the town homes and apartments. I somehow feel there was a trestle under that fill sometime.

Much more damage was sustained at the Pines which is south and next door of Pine Acres where one townhome owner has four feet of mud slide on his back yard. Less fortunate is his neighbor who has five feet of it INSIDE his first floor while on the other side of the ravine that the slide came down the owners cars are buried up to their windows and their ground is littered with rocks and trees. Below that are the Animas Village apartments which were flooded and had to be evacuated. Work at the Pines to clear the ravine started today.

If you look at a topographical map of the Animas valley in this area, the whole west side is dotted with similar ravines to the one that causes the washout and the mud slide at the Pines.

Mark K



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