About 15 years ago, a County of San Diego, Department of Public Works D-9  
Bulldozer was ripping up asphalt from a former Whitefront Store parking lot  
when it disappeared. The work crew ran to the edge of the crater and  found it 
was in a 80-year old brick kiln and the roof collapsed from the weight  of the 
dozer. Seems that instead of doing up front history work, the  environmental 
document only had a condition for an archaeology monitor to  be present during 
dozing (which was so vaguely worded that the Public Works  people simply 
ignored the requirement). Talk about working in a dangerous  environment! That place 
had more than 10 other buried kilns with dozens of  linking tunnels. The 
embarassment resulted in a Public Works archaeologist  letting an expensive 
contract to hire a consulting company, fly Karl Gurcke down  from Idaho for a couple 
days, and conduct a really expensive data recovery  mitigation project. 
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.