Has Active Local Building Contractors with Heavy Equipment
These two counties are awash with local construction companies and heavy equipment.

 Grand County

Building Contractors - 6
Building Contractors-Commercial & Industrial - 75
Concrete Contractors - 16
Concrete Equipment & Supplies - 1
Concrete Mixing Plant Equipment - 1
Concrete Pumping Contractors - 2
Contractors Equipment & Supplies - 2
Contractors' Equipment Rental - 1
Crane Service - 2
Crushed Stone - 1
Demolition Contractors - 1
Drywall Contractors - 5
Drywall Contractors Equipment & Supplies - 5
Dump Truck Service - 7
Electric Contractors - 23
Electric Contractors-Commercial & Industrial - 22
Electric Equipment & Supplies - 2
Electric Equipment & Supplies-Wholesale & Manufacturers - 1
Excavation Contractors - 30
Foundation Contractors - 3
General Contractors - 115
Geothermal Heating & Cooling Contractors - 1
Grading Contractors - 1
Heating Contractors & Specialties - 64
Home Builders - 105
Home Centers - 7
Land Surveyors - 13
Landscape Contractors - 5
Landscaping Equipment & Supplies - 1
Log Cabins, Homes & Buildings - 13
Logging Companies - 2
Machine Shops - 1
Mason Contractors - 6
Masonry Contractors-Commercial & Industrial - 3
Masonry Equipment & Supplies - 5
Paving Contractors - 19
Plumbing Contractors - 40
Plumbing Contractors-Commercial & Industrial - 23
Plumbing-Drain & Sewer Cleaning - 4
Road Building Contractors - 17
Roofing Contractors - 10
Roofing Contractors-Commercial & Industrial - 9
Roofing Equipment & Supplies - 1
Sand & Gravel - 2
Sawmills - 1
Sheet Metal Fabricators - 2
Sheet Metal Work - 4
Timber & Timberland Companies - 1
Timber-Frame Homes - 12
Water Well Drilling & Pump Contractors - 5
Water Works Equipment & Supplies - 2

 Summit County

ASPHALT &:
Paving Contractors - 1
Products - 6
Seal Coating - 2
BUILDING:
Construction Consultants - 1
Contractors - 12
Materials - Retail - 3
CONCRETE:
Breaking, Cutting, Sawing, Etc. - 2
Contractors - 13
Foundations - 1
Products - 1
Pumping - 1
Ready Mixed - 1
Repair & Restoration - 3
CONTRACTORS:
Concrete - 1
Equipment & Supplies - Rentals & Leasing - 6
Framing - 1
General - 87
Remodel & Repair - 23
CRANE SERVICE - 2
DRYWALL CONTRACTORS - 9
ELECTRIC CONTRACTORS - 22
ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT:
Service & Repair - 1
Supplies - Retail - 1
Supplies - Wholesale - 1
Motors - Sales & Service - 1
EXCAVATING CONTRACTORS - 30
FOUNDATION CONTRACTORS - 5
GENERAL CONTRACTORS - 116
HEATING:
Contractors & Specialists - 109
Equipment & Supply - 2
HOME:
Builders - 118
Centers - 7
LAND:
Clearing & Leveling - 2
Surveyors - 11
LANDSCAPE:
Contractors - 8
Equipment & Supply - 4
LOG CABIN HOMES & BUILDING - 9
MASON:
Contractors - 6
Materials & Supply - 1
MASONRY:
Contractors - 5
Equipment & Supply - 6
MECHANICAL:
Contractors - 4
PAVING:
Contractors - 28
Equipment - 1
PIPE:
Pipeline Contractors - 2
PLUMBING:
Contractors - 58
Commercial/Industrial Contractors - 31
Drain & Sewer Cleaning - 7
Fixtures, Parts & Supplies - Retail - 2
Fixtures, Parts & Supplies - Wholesale - 2
RETAINING WALLS - 4
ROAD BUILDING CONTRACTORS - 22
ROOFING CONTRACTORS - 8
ROOFING CONTRACTORS - COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL - 7
ROOFING MATERIALS - 1
SAND & GRAVEL - 2
SEAL COATING - 2
SEPTIC TANKS & SYSTEMS - 10
SEWER BUILDERS, CLEANING & REPAIR - 8
SHEET METAL:
Metalworking/Forming - 4
STEEL:
Processing - 2
STONE:
Crushed - 2
Natural - 2
Setting - Contractors - 1
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER - 4
SURVEYOR:
Land - 7
Marine - 1
TILE:
Cleaning, Refinishing & Sealing - 1
Contractors & Dealers - 10
Wholesale & Manufacturers - 6
TIMBER:
Timber & Timberland Companies - 1
Timber-Frame Homes - 8
WATER:
Filtration & Purification Equipment - 1
Heaters - Sales & Service, Repair - 4
Treatment Equipment, Service & Supply - 2
Waterproofing Contractors - 3
Well Drilling & Pump Contractors - 3
Works - Equipment & Supply - 1
WELDING:
Service - 4
Supply & Equipment - 1


The Criteria List - How the 2 Counties Stack Up (follow links to detailed information)

• Rural location, at least 50-100 miles from MAJOR metropolitan area
• Limited access capable of being monitored & controlled, or denied 
• Has sufficient quantities of water LOCALLY & local water treatment plant
• Has local waste/sewer treatment facilities (bonus for bio-conversion plants)
• Has independent power supply, or capability to generate power locally without outside materials
• Has a local modern hospital, ambulance service, dental offices, medical laboratories
• Has local fire and police departments & equipment (bonus if allow for volunteer forces)
• Has local primary and secondary schools (bonus for local college facilities)
• Has local library with technical (how to/how things work) and research sections [hardcopy]
• Has local radio/television broadcast facilities capable of transmission and reception (inc. satellite)
• Has a local economy sufficient to support survivalist influx
• Has a number of retail shops for food, clothing, household goods, sporting goods, building supplies
• Has firearms and ammunition shops
• Has arable land (for farming) and viable wildlife population (hunting & fishing)
• Has active farmers/ranchers with stock & equipment
• Has active local building contractors with heavy equipment
• Has local indoor & outdoor meeting places (for community voting/discussion/etc.)
• Has local entertainment facilities (essential for mental health)
• Has relatively mild weather or emergency contingencies (safe buildings/areas) for known hazards
• Has little or no recurrent history of natural disaster
• Has emergency contingencies (safe buildings/areas) for known recurrent hazards.
• Not downstream of major/multiple dams and reservoirs (or, at least, not in the flood plain)
• Not directly in the path of concentrated fallout (ash - burning cities, volcanic, nuclear)
• Above catastrophic flood levels from hurricane, tsunami, meteor/asteroid/comet strike
• Not a potential (or previous) target for hostile direct attack
• No likely near-miss potential from a deliberate attack
• Not situated in an obvious evacuation path (unless you are SURE access can be diverted/denied - and HELD
  Bonus Criteria
• Bonus for local National Guard/Army Reserve Armory
• Bonus for grain silo's, feed lots/stores
• Bonus for local breweries/distilleries
• Bonus for operating cannery/bottler
• Bonus for local (small scale) manufacturing
• Bonus for mills/lumber yards
• Bonus for local quarry w/cement facilities
• Bonus for local highway department with road maintenance equipment
• Bonus for pre-existing large-scale alternative energy usage (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, etc.)
• Bonus for fly-in/out local airfield with aircraft parking & maintenance facilities
• Bonus for local mineral and petroleum sources (with equipment for recovery)
• Bonus for temporary/long term underground shelters

Membership Goals:

Our target goals for voting age self-reliant survivalist members:
Grand County: 13,406 population x 15% = 2,011 members
Summit County: 28,296 population x 15% = 4,245 members

Total voting age members wanted: 6,256, although half that would make a BIG difference to the counties.

If you already live in Summit or Grand Counties, contact MEG to let us know!

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