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Old 18th Aug 2013, 18:20
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Originally Posted by Aterpster
The dark contour line is 700 feet, msl. Trouble is, it is meaningless because so much surface material has been moved around since that chart was issued.
Most of the grading was done south of the final impact. Also, the house existed before then as well as the hill across the street where the trees were initially hit. Assuming the old topo is reasonably accurate, then that gives us a an approximate benchmark. Even if you say a +- of 40 feet then you can still start to draw some conclusions...
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