Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Washington’s Department of Natural Resources has issued an
emergency order blocking rock mining near a huge landslide. The
slide last month took out two homes and blocked Highway 410 west
of Yakima. The agency acted after it heard that a mining company
planned to resume business. Bob Redling is a spokesman for DNR. He
says digging near the slide could trigger another landslide. But
Redling says rock mining was probably not the cause of the original
landslide.
Redling: “It’s still going to take some time to figure out what
caused the slide, but right now no strong indications that this
necessarily started it. Still unknown.”
Simmons & Son Hauling mines rock on DNR land for road building.
The company couldn’t be reached by deadline for this story.
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