| Show Geologists report on Deep Creek An of unusual dimensions with unique characteristics has oc-cured in a sparsely populated area of Uintah County about 30 miles northwest of The phenomenon is located in the drainage of Smelter a tributary of Deep about ten mues north of La according to the Utah Geological Mineral State geologists Donald McMillan and Bruce Kaliser who visited the site reported that the earth movement which began April 16 about 3 is an of extraordinary Gently sloping pasture land began giving and in a matter of hours the gully grew to a giant gash over one-hart mile in three hundred feet in and in places twenty-five feet The millions of cubic feet of earth mostly silt and fine continued on down the clogging culverts and lining Tremendous rumbling accompanied the overtopping and disintegrating of large masses of earth which broke off the walls of the rapidly growing Geologists McMillan and Kaliser Indicate that the absence of ground frost combined with heavy snowfall and recent melting have contributed unusual infiltration of water into the ground and creation of Intense subsurface water The Utah Geological and Mineral Survey was notified of the event by the State Office of Emergency Services on April By April the day of the site inspection by Kaliser and recession of I he vertical earth walls had more or less ceased but the immediate vicinity remained unstable and Bruce N. chief of the engineering geology section of said that no like phenomenon of such size and rapid development has been known to occur In recent time in A county road used daily by school buses and serving ranches in the area was It will be possible to restore traffic by relocating the read around the hazard-susceptible terrain in the immediate vicinity of the Work has already |
