The site is a crude oil gathering facility in Weld County, Colorado within the DJ Basin. The soil is composed of mostly sandy material. Wind erosion was blowing sand all over the unit and sloughing off the hills. The proposed solution was to armor the embankment to minimize sand erosion due to wind.
20-inch products pipeline runs parallel to a railroad track in Imperial County, California. Both the pipeline and the railroad are crossed by the 250-foot wide Mammoth Wash. Flash floods caused lateral migration and eroded 3 to 6 feet of the right-descending bank.