Thursday 9 July 2015

Inadequate Retaining Wall

A Developer intended to develop a plot of land adjacent to a burial ground. They shared a common hill with boundary at the hill top. Excavation was unavoidable. The Developer attempted to cut the hill as much as possible and as close to the boundary, in order to have more land for development. The slope was almost 80 degrees to the horizontal. Then he built a rubble wall to protect the slope he had created. 
I wondered how long would the wall last as the wall was obviously not high enough to protect the excavated hill.



I did not need to wait long, the slope failed and tons of earth from the adjacent land fell into his land. It did not bury anybody, but I was not sure whether there were any buried body, corpse or skeletons  swam into the land ! 


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