Kingston, Luzerne County -- It's a vacant property in Kingston that was once home decades ago to King's Miracle Mart department store and in more recent years Reilly Classic Cars. Now, a tarp-covered crumbling wall just adds to what neighbors on South Dawes Avenue consider an eyesore. "In the summertime, you get weeds as tall as I am and then all the neighbors complain and then they come and they cut the weeds all down," said Sally Dawes. Fellow Kingston resident Mark Wanko added, "It's a mess. You know, it's just neglected and it's not Mr. Reilly's fault."

The vacant property is owned by 84-year-old Charles Reilly of Kingston who for years has tried to sell the property. Mr. Reilly told Eyewitness News that on three separate occasions he had a buyer for the parcel of land but each time was thwarted because of issues over the retaining wall and with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "The wall has been failing for many years. There's been a long delay in this project," said Kingston Municipal Administrator Paul Keating.

Mr. Keating says the government balked at developing the property fearing that disrupting the wall could cause earth erosion near the Wyoming Valley Levee System. Now that the wall has crumbled, Kingston will use government grant money to take down the entire wall which is hundreds of feet long between Market and Pierce Streets. The borough will have the wall area graded and reinforced to the Army Corps of Engineers' liking. Then finally, development of the property may become a reality. "Our goal is to partner with the Reilly family to turn that into some viable tax producing property for the municipality," said Mr. Keating. Neighbors look forward to that day. "It would be nice to see something back there. Something we could all use," said Ms. McDavitt. Mr. Wanko added, "Something that would, you know, kind of help the community."

Mr. Keating says ideally he would like to see some combination of residential, office space and possible restaurants along the side of the levee. As of now, there is no timetable for any of that. Meanwhile, the project to take down the retaining wall at the Reilly property could begin Thursday or Friday and be completed by mid-May weather permitting.

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The Grade II-listed wall of St Laurence Church propped up with scaffolding since the 1980s is to be repaired at last.

Reading Borough Councils planning committee approved plans on Wednesday to demolish five sections of the wall and rebuild them on new concrete foundations where necessary and reusing existing bricks.

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The work programme has been backed by English Heritage, but must be approved by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles.

In a report to the planning committee, English Heritage said: The poor condition of the wall and its unsightly scaffold supports has been a blot on the townscape for many years and this opportunity to address the problem should be seized.

These repair and rebuilding proposals have been formulated following extensive discussions

between the council highways team, its conservation advisors, specialist conservation engineers and English Heritage.

The scheme retains as much of the historic fabric as possible while stabilising the structure, retaining the trees (which are acknowledgements being important in townscape terms) and ensuring that the pavement adjacent is usable.

Lead councillor for strategic environment, planning and transport Tony Page made his often-repeated joke that the scaffolding had been up so long it ought to be listed too.

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The Stojanovic family has lived in their Charlotte home on Twynham Lane since 1996. They say their backyard - with a pool and basketball court - was one of their favorite places until this week when a retaining wall partially collapsed.

The family believes the Rea Road widening project, which is happening right behind their property, weakening the yard and caused the collapse.

"I'm afraid. I've cried all I can cry. I've called everyone I can call. I need answers. I need help" Tiffany Stojanovic told WBTV.

Stojanovic said she heard a loud noise Monday afternoon and"I looked out the back door and I saw this and I immediately got sick."

The retaining wall, which the family said they paid a company $97,000 to build eight years ago, had partially collapsed. Stojanovic said they never had any issues with the wall or the backyard until after crewsstarted working to widen Rea Road in 2012.

They say they started noticing cracks in the basketball court and"you can sit outside and you can watch the water in the pool jump and bounce to every vibration. You can go in our home, put your hand against the wall and feel it vibrating" said Stojanovic.

But it's the partial collapse of the wall that has the family nervous.

"Just after this happened we also noticed the lining of our pool is also tearing away which scares me to death" said Stojanovic. "It makes me think - well does that mean the pool is following."

They're worried about the house's foundation.

"I don't know how much time. Will the next rain really do this in?

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A retaining wall in the Kentlands community recently collapsed forcing two homes to be condemned. The wall has been sured up and a pair of workers were seen stacking the fallen stone on Tuesday morning, along Quince Orchard Road in Gaithersburg.

Last week, when a Kentlands community retaining wall partially collapsed, the neighborhood association had been working on a repair plan for about a year.

According to Kentlands Citizens Assembly meeting minutes posted online, talks about the walls health and stability started in May 2013, when General Manager Randy Fox informed board members of the structures problems and the potential costs for fixes.

By June 2013, the association hired Gardner James Engineering of Columbia, Md., to investigate the status of the wall. In December 2013, the firm shared its findings in a report, which called for more frequent and thorough monitoring of the wall and explained the need for drainage repairs, according to online documents.

We had already planned and budgeted for this sort of work to be going on this year, said Neil Harris, chairman of the board. We were aware that this was a time for maintenance.

He added the association was prepared to spend up to $500,000 on the project.

The process was moving along as expected until a section of the retaining wall abruptly collapsed at about 4:20 p.m. on March 31.

No one was injured, but two townhouses on Ridgepoint Place were evacuated and subsequently condemned by the city of Gaithersburg.

The wall, owned by the Kentlands Citizen Assembly, is made of hundreds of concrete blocks, each weighing 200 pounds, according to Gaithersburg City Manager Tony Tomasello.

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Two years after a shoreline emergency was declared due to eroding duress at the beachfront adjacent to Leonardo Arms condominiums, another extension for a temporary sandbag wall has been given to allow more time for an upland retaining wall to be constructed in front of the 7400 Estero Blvd. property.

The Fort Myers Beach Town Council unanimously approved to extend a Town permit (issued in March 2012) until Feb. 1, 2015, so that contractors can obtain the proper state and federal permits, remove the sandbag structure that was embedded into the seawall area and anchor the retaining wall as close as practical to the building. The wall has a reported design of roughly 400 cubic yards of fill.

Back in early 2012, Gulf water migration and recession from an erosion process caused by tropical storm waves was cited as threatening the foundation of one of the condo buildings (Unit II). It was noted that tidal flow has come as close as 15 feet of the foundation of the building, which houses 60 units.

BOB PETCHER At this time, there is no eroding duress at the beachfront near the affected building at Leonardo Arms condominiums. Time and weather may change that scenario, though.

"The sand bags in place actually did protect the building from the strong surge from Tropical Storm Debby a few years ago," said Environmental Sciences Coordinator Keith Laakkonen, the first Town official to bring the erosion problem forward. "Without the protection of that wall, there might have been some erosion and potential undermining of the building."

This past January, Council approved a special exception with certain conditions to allow a roughly 300-foot-long upland retaining wall seaward of the 1978 Coastal Construction Control Line in the environmentally critical zoning district to be built. Reports say the wall will be buried in front of Leonardo Arms condominiums.

This action comes after Council unanimously approved a resolution on March 19, 2012, to issue a Declaration of Local Shoreline Emergency from the Department of Environmental Protection to allow the Town to seek a permit for temporary protective measures.

The permit granted the placement of large sand bags brought in by flatbed trucks and embedded into the seawall area at Leonardo Arms to aid in the erosion stress area caused by tidal action that has been cutting back the existing bank at the property. Protective vegetation and boulders that made up a barrier had fallen into the eroded area.

That measure was only allowed temporarily. After a six-month permit, authorization to keep the sand bags in place was extended, while officials at the condominium looked into a longer-term solution. Another layer of sandbags was added during a phase II implementation. The original extension was to expire next week.

Officials at Leonardo Arms decided to hire a coastal engineering firm to address the deteriorated landscape. Naples-based Humiston & Moore Engineers was first hired for consultation reasons then began working with DEP and Town officials when the erosion problem came to light.

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