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Show Snnris.e report in; results favorable observed to not be wet during the tests, and added that the likelihood of subsidence sub-sidence from "natural" factors below that depth were "very small". City Manager Joe Melling then recounted portions of a recent conversation con-versation he had with Gordon. Melling said the engineer recommended recom-mended certain precautions to be taken in buildings erected in Sunrise Subdivision, Sub-division, including monitoring settlement set-tlement before excavation, properly designing surface drainage to flow away from the buildings, and placing steel reinforcement in footings rather than adding more mass with additional concrete. Council members then embarked on a discussion on how the city should approach this and any possible future subsidence problems. "We don't want to ruin the sale of property," said Mayor Jack Sawyers, "yet we want to make sure people understand what they're getting into. I think there should be some restrictions on buildings." Some Council members wanted the city to draft a "press release," stating the city had recognized the subsidence problem and was taking positive steps to deal with it, There was concern that widespread reports of subsidence would keep some people from moving to Cedar City. Various methods of enforcing subsidence-necessitated restrictions were then debated, concluded by the statement of Iron County Planning Commission Chairman and Sunrise Subdivision developer Dallin Gardner: "As a public body, you need to decide how far you should go to educate the public on property in these areas." Should the Dames and Moore report substantially agree with conclusions arrived at in the report released Tuesday, construction on a 30-unit senior citizens project in Sunrise Subdivision should be allowed to begin shortly. By LEE WARNICK Record Editor The results of last week's subsidence-related subsidence-related drilling in the proposed Sunrise Subdivision produced favorable results, according to a report released Tuesday. The document, from Rollins, Brown and Gunnell, consulting engineers to Sunrise developers GO Real Estate, indicates almost entirely vertical drainage in the area, not the horizontal seepage feared. In Cedar City areas highly susceptible suscep-tible to subsidence, underground drainage occasionally encounters large, gravelly "lenses," which allow drainage to spread horizontally, rather than vertically downward. Such drainage has the potential of causing subsidence some distance away from where the origin of drainage actually occurs. One theory, unconfirmed as of "yet, has it that such "lenses" were a major cause of the subsidence of four homes on Spruce Street, immediately to the west of Sunrise Subdivision. While the report, handed to Cedar City Council members at their Tuesday morning work meeting, concedes "some gravelly areas existed," it went on to say the areas did not appear to be "continuous". Council members were visably pleased with the results, though they said they needed to withhold final judgment until data v were received from Dames and Moore, the city's consulting engineers." The Dames report, expected Wednesday, was not expected to differ greatly from the Rollins Opinion, as both participated in the drilling and testing. Cedar City Manager Joe Melling said Dames and Moore's Bill Gordon told him the firm's research in the Sunrise Subdivision "will help a lot with our recommendations on Spruce Street." Atone hole "prewetted" for the tests, the soil moisture content was 34 percent, per-cent, according to the Rollins report. At the same depth approximately 10 feet away, a moisture level of only 11 percent was measured. The developer's report also said soils below the depth of 16 to 18 feet were |