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Depot Delta

Page history last edited by Michael 9 years, 6 months ago

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     A Morrow Project engineering depot, located on Hurricane Mesa, Utah (near Zion National Park). The mesa rises 300+ meters above the Virgin River; the top is 1550 meters above sea level. A paved, two-lane road leads up to the mesa top -- it's somewhat prone to landslides, and pretty clearly was repaired about nine years ago by the departing Project teams. There are two airstrips atop the mesa:  an semi-paved 1500 meter strip, and a 3600 meter paved strip (originally disguised as a test track for rocket sled testing). The actual depot is located just below the surface of the top of the mesa, near the former "VIP center".

     There were two chambers where cryogenic berths had been installed:  one for the "team" berths, near the vehicles, radios, armory, etc.; and another behind a security door for the Omega team. There were enough pads for about 50 persons total; on the top of the mesa were a dozen iron crosses, with names of dead Project members lasered into them. The team numbers known to R54 were found on some of the crosses, also.

     It was designed to hold: 

 

  • Engineering Team Delta

  • a small Science Team (number not known yet) in an Overland Train

  • Omega Team O-101a number of persons not fit for duty in the Project, due to health or security issues.

  • Recon Team R-111:  four air scouts

 

     Besides the two big Overland Trains and the Airscouts, the other vehicles were:

 

  • one V-150 APC

  • one V-150 20mm

  • one V-150 recovery and repair vehicle

  • five XR-311

  • two Commando Scout

  • four Commando Ranger

  • one MW24C scoop loader, converted to fusion power

  • two fusion-powered Case model M4K articulated rough-terrain forklifts 4.4 tons each, top speed 32 kph. Loaded on lowbed trailers originally.

  • six M818 five-ton semi-tractor trucks, converted to fusion power. They are each 7.3 meters long. These use the same 14x20 "5 ton truck" wheels and tires as the V-150, and share some other mechanical components. They don't have any "team equipment", but just basic items:  pioneer tools, tow cable, breaker bar, vehicle jack, snow chains, etc. They do carry a single spare tire.

  • twelve M870 lowbed semi-trailers, 40-ton capacity, 2.9 meters wide, 12.8 meters long. They use 11x20 tires, but don't have spares aboard. Seven of them had loads aboard:

    • two Mark 2 fusion generators, ten Mark 1 fusion generators (two trailers)

    • two fusion-powered M4K forklifts (see above),  (two trailers)

    • thirty-two 14.5x20 Commando Special runflat tire and wheel sets, for M818 tractors and Commando vehicles (one trailer)

    • 70 wooden utility poles, 13 meters long, 540 kg each (one trailer)

    • fourteen 1.68 m diameter aluminum spools of electrical transmission wire (8 km per drum), and other transmission system components, for camp construction (one trailer)

  • one M1098 5000 gallon semi-trailer water tanker, with hoses, a filtration system and an electric pump. 9.3 meters long; it has an 11x20 spare tire attached. Note that a very nice refugee camp will provide 20 liters (about 5 gallons) per person per day; a crummy camp, only 8 liters (2 gallons). Thus this tanker can provide one day's supply to the nominal "1000 person camp", but the Project expects to gather other tanker trailers, etc..

  • four M971 van semi-trailers, 10.8 meters long (personnel door on right side, A/C or window openings on front end, water, electrical and telephone fittings inside for use as shop or lab van, two 11x20 spare tires carried underneath). They are pre-loaded with supplies:

    • trailer 1:  ten sets of "shelter assistance" cache contents

    • trailer 2:  about 60,000 LRP ration meals

    • trailer 3:  five sets of "neighborhood defense" cache contents, two resupply cache contents, and one each of the universal, operations "A", operations "B", and operations "C" cache contents

    • trailer 4:  720 TRW Low Maintenance Rifles, with 6 magazines each; 720 resistweave coveralls (various sizes, no markings or patches), and 260,000 rounds of 5.56mm ball ammunition

  • three "demolition" dump semi-trailers, 10.4 meters long, with convertible doors (swing up or side-opening), 47 yard (36 cubic meters) capacity, 8mm thick steel body. They each carry one 11x20 spare tire.

    • each is filled with thousands of empty sandbags and four spare 11x20 tires on wheels

  • five Allis-Chalmers electric forklifts, capacity 4000 kg (NOT fusion powered, they are battery powered for use at the depot initially)

 

     Items not loaded onto vehicles:

 

  • 96 small inflatable concrete shelters, 24 of the larger shelters; along with the accessory kits (lockable doors, stove jacks, vents, etc.) and four electric inflation fans per chamber

  • housing equipment (cots, blankets, heaters, air conditioners, field telephones, light fixtures, some tents, toilets, etc.) for 1000 persons.

  • infrastructure equipment - kitchens, freezers, water and power distribution, sanitation, showers, fire extinguishers, sewage treatment, repair shop, two survival libraries in jeep trailers, and a selection of took kits and hand tools for putting the equipment to use. Thus hammers, sledges, hand drills, squares and levels, saws, wrenches, pliers, etc. ... probably enough to equip a dozen or more "workers".

  • medical equipment:  surgical equipment, x-ray machines, autoclaves, etc. to fit out a 200 bed MASH-type hospital

 

 

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