The 100-foot-wide pipeline ROW has two 8-inch crude oil pipelines that cross Platte County, Wyoming. The soil is composed of mostly sandy material. Wind erosion was blowing sand and removing cover from the pipelines, leaving the pipelines with shallow cover.
A 50-foot wide pipeline right-of-way has one 30-inch natural gas pipeline that crosses Las Huertas Creek, Arroyo Channel, in Sandoval County, New Mexico. The Arroyo Channel had fairly steep banks composed of clay, sand, gravel, and rock and the pipeline had limited ground cover over an 1100-foot section.