Tribune letter of June 15, 2005

[stephalex]

Did anyone see the letter to the editor in the Trib of June 15, 2005?

It says the Cove is on shaky ground and the homes could fall like the ones at laguna...

Does anyone know about this?

The writer also says that the siren test was due to this problem

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Those letters are to be expected. Some of the gun club members/supporters have been trying to convince people that Mountain Cove should never have been built since before the city voted to rezone them.

The fact is that Mountain Cove would not have been developed without stringent guidelines. How many developments do you know that require fire sprinklers in all of the homes? Emergency vehicles have access to all parts of the cove. The trails are also fire lanes.

The river has been redesigned to for a hundred year flood. The gun club made jokes about us getting flooded out before the big rains came, and it was the gun club that got flooded, not us.

Yes, there are risks to living in the canyon, just as there are risks to living in Laguna Canyon, Malibu, or anywhere in California, Florida, or on the Coasts. That makes it even more vital that more people get involved in the Neighborhood Watch program. I heard that there are still some areas of Mountain Cove that are not part of the program. I guess some people are just too busy to make sure that their family and neighbors are going to be safe in an emergency.

If the dams ever broke, yes, we would be underwater, but so would many other cities. Lets get real here.

I think that this development has been well developed.
We should be careful about certian things, such as not letting our trees get too close to our homes and obviously, do not keep highly flamable materials, such as wood, next to our homes.

Expect more letters in the future....

[stephalex]

Thanks for letting me know its the gun club members who were writing those letters... I had no idea why that letter was in the trib..
If I see another one I will just disregard it


thanks

[azusa518]

A fault line runs along the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. That's where Mt. Cove is located. Why must some always blame the gun club members whenever something negative is written about Mt. Cove?

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There are faul lines all over California. I still think that the writer is a gun club member. It is just an educated guess. They have a history of doing such things and I don't see any reason for them to stop.

[circamc]

Mt. Cove is sitting on 50 ft. and more of engineered fill. This was done to raise it above the flood plain. Under normal circumstances this would be okay, but as the development does sit right in the Sierra Madre fault zone it is more at risk during a quake than if it were on more solid footing. This is basically dirt and rocks piled on top of gravel and boulders that existed underneath.

[surfermom]

circamc said:

Mt. Cove is sitting on 50 ft. and more of engineered fill. This was done to raise it above the flood plain. Under normal circumstances this would be okay, but as the development does sit right in the Sierra Madre fault zone it is more at risk during a quake than if it were on more solid footing. This is basically dirt and rocks piled on top of gravel and boulders that existed underneath.

I would think that it would depend on where your lot is. My lot is a cut lot, not a fill lot. I know that my lot is on solid ground. I checked it out before purchasing it. However, my parents have been on a fill lot for over 30 years. So just because you are on a fill lot does not mean that it is more risky. Standard Pacific paid a lot of money for soil engineering when designing this development.