Possible costs associated with investigating and mitigating geologic hazards in rural areas of western San Mateo County, California with a section on using the USGS website to determine the cost of developing property for residences in rural parts of San Mateo County, California

Brabb, Earl E.; Roberts, Sebastian; Cotton, W. R.; Kropp, A. L.; Wright, R. H.; Zinn E. N.

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This publication addresses deep-seated landslide susceptibility, debris flow susceptibility, and other geologic hazards in rural parts of western San Mateo County. The report also estimates possible costs of investigating and mitigating the landslide hazards. The study area includes the Half Moon Bay 7.5‘ quadrangle, the Montara Mountain 7.5‘ quadrangle, and the Pescadero/Butano Creeks watershed. Hazard maps were derived by integrating slope data and previous geologic, landslide and debris flow mapping. The digital database, which is found at http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-127, includes 43 plotfiles for slope maps, Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle maps, Digital Raster Graphic topographic base maps, geologic maps, deep-seated landslide inventory maps, deep-seated landslide susceptibility maps, and debris flow inventory and susceptibility maps. Twelve ARC export files of supporting digital data are included in the database, and other data have been published previously and are available at other USGS websites named in an accompanying pamphlet (of00-127_2.ps, of00-127_2.pdf, of00-127_2.txt). As explained in the pamphlet, a geohazard website included in the publication (http://kaibab.wr.usgs.gov/geohazweb/intro.htm) facilitates interactive use of the hazard information in this database. All data layers are in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection, zone 10. The scale of the source maps limits the spatial resolution (scale) of the database to 1:24,000.

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Brabb, Earl E.; Roberts, Sebastian; Cotton, W. R.; Kropp, A. L.; Wright, R. H.; Zinn E. N.

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Open-File Report

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2000-127

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Possible costs associated with investigating and mitigating geologic hazards in rural areas of western San Mateo County, California with a section on using the USGS website to determine the cost of developing property for residences in rural parts of San Mateo County, California; 2000; OFR; 2000-127; Brabb, Earl E.; Roberts, Sebastian; Cotton, W. R.; Kropp, A. L.; Wright, R. H.; Zinn E. N.