"Safe" Rural Land Requirements

[Shellie]

Please add to this list what you think is important (in no order):

1) distance from population
2) high altitude
3) higher altitude relative to surroundings
4) forest/tree cover plus open space
5) soil quality- pH, depth, composition, perk
6) surface water presence, drainage patterns
7) ground water quality, high water table
8) distance from military bases
9) distance from RR
10) distance from cell towers
11) amount of solar radiation (for those using solar panels)
12) reliability/amount of annual of precipitation
13) avoidance of temperature extremes
14) avoidance of poisonous "creepy crawlies" and disease-carrying insects
15) distance/upwind from nuclear power plants, nuclear silos, nuclear targets, and nuclear and other weapons factories
16) distance from chemical factories



please keep adding....