A question I asked of the BLM a couple of days ago.....obviously their answer is not clear, but I thought I would share it anyways.

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subject = ISDRA - Wash Road

FeedbackType = General Question

I am a frequent visitor to the ISDRA, particularly Glamis. There is a lot of talk about the fence being put up by the RR.
The question is, will the BLM be grading a new road along the fence for visitors to access camping at the washes?

Thank you for your time.

Deb


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(BLM Reply)


We are working on the environmental documents to allow us to grade the fence openings that will be at each wash. This topic will be discussed at this Friday's TRT meeting. please see our home page link below.

Neil Hamada
Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area Manager


Please visit our updated Dunes web page at www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/ohvs/isdra.html

The big humps will be cost and environmental issues.

Those are BIG humps.

So the BLM has stated they will grade the openings in the fence at each wash.

That means No New Wash road along side the fence.

That means we will have to use the existing Wash road on the RR property.



Good info to know.
I'm glad you sent that question and Niel answered it.


Thank you.

i will grade a new road for a fee, do i send my proposel to the imperial county highway dept. please contact me for a bid!

There, I fixed it for you...
Now maybe people will take it serious.

they said they are working on it.... like "temporary" closures...

Nice Fence they got there... sure looks like it will keep the Sand off the Railroad Tracks...

here are a few pics of the fence.

This is looking very fishy. This will not be stopping sand anytime soon. The openings are braced for future gates if they felt like adding them.

If I am driving down the RailRoads property does that mean the BLM has no Juristiction and I should just keep driving and ignore those pesky red and blue lites?

True to that but you are actually will be in jurisdiction of both... so if the railroad police wanted to give you a ticket, all they could pop u for is tresspassing on a surface road owned by the railroad...

What wash is it up to now?

Hey Mark, what wash are those pics from?

Shawn

The last I seen it about 3 weeks ago it was at 15.

24

i can see a lot of jackazzes hitting that fence and getting hurt

What are the horizontal members made of? It almost looks like a ribbed rubber (not for her pleasure) type material.

Yes they are made out of rubber.

Good thing the sand wont go through it and damage the tracks...

I wonder how long til some idoits decide to cut it? This whole situation is frigged up.

yup... it is begging for problems... how long before the rubber deteriorates?

Found This

http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/comm...17_glamis.shtml

THAT SUCKKKKS! That was worse then the pics and video on the other thread!

Does anybody know if you can currently drive along the fence to get to the wash camp spots? If so can you do it an an RV or just a 4 x 4 truck?

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Just heard about the issues with Glamis and the RR. OMG! This is crazy. I'm glad to hear that the BML is doing somthing about it. C U all this weekend!

cool

I was told by my son through a friend that went out last weekend no more camping in washes is this true?

Not true.