How silly of me to forget the ground subsidence fissures. (The subject of another earthcache if I can just get a good location.) Those things are very bad for homeowners. You cant fix a home once you get one of them on your property. That area is full of them. Roping The Wind wrote:Yea, I would agree. I read about that the other day. I have been following this for a couple of years now since I first heard about the prospect of development out there. I have a beautiful untouched desert out there to fly my balloon over... I hate to see it all developed. There is already a developement going in on El Camino Viejo Rd near Queen Valley. The area in question to the south or west of Hwy 60 is a serious fissure situation waiting to happen. Look at all the homes that have been and are being built south of Hwy 60 from say Ellsworth east to around Ironwood Rd. That area and southward to Queen Creek has had many large fissures open up and consume small pieces of property... it is just a matter of time before one big enough consumes a freakin' home. I have seen fissures in that area well before there were houses there and then they build there... what are they thinking!? Greed all greed. Build em and the unsuspecting people will come. Of course, if they come from California, they are use to large scale disasters like earthquakes, flooding, landslides, forest fires and the like. Perhaps a little fissure consuming their neighbors home wouldnt be anything to be concerned about. :) I think the area in question near Hwy 60 south of Gold Canyon is in a similar situation. The water issue is just another situation that will have to be delt with out there. Scott Team Ropingthewind ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.