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Updated: 01/15/2014 7:20 AM Created: 01/14/2014 4:54 PM KSTP.com By: Ellen Galles
A crack in a South Minneapolis retaining wall is becoming a pit... a money pit. Homeowner Elizabeth Howell was originally cited for it back in 2008. The cost to fix it would be anywhere from $70,000 to $90,000.
Howell says the retaining wall is the city's property and after five years, dozens of letters to city officials and multiple court cases a Hennepin County judge finally agreed with her in late December.
Now Howell is waiting for the snow to melt and for a public works crew to come and fix it.
"The fact that the city dug its heels in and kept pushing me to fix it when it wasn't my responsibility, I find that outlandish," said Howell.
Minneapolis City attorney Susan Segal says they have to take a hard, careful look at cases like this. She says the dispute lasted so long because they were defending the city's interests and taxpayer dollars.
"We have to look closely and make sure we are doing our due diligence," Segal said.
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Crack in South Minneapolis Retaining Wall Becomes 'Money Pit'
Tears of sorrow change to tears of joy for displaced Covington residents
construction cost has been approved to provide permanent fix to a collapsed retaining wall.
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Downtown businesses and restaurants began to reopen after water was declared safe to drink in portions of West Virginia's capital, but life has yet to return to normal for most of the 300,000 people who haven't been able to use running water in the five days since a chemical spill.
It could still be days before everyone in the Charleston metropolitan area is cleared to use water, though officials say the water in certain designated areas was safe to drink and wash with as long as people flushed out their systems. They cautioned that the water may still have a slight licorice-type odor, raising the anxieties of some who believed it was still contaminated.
"I wouldn't drink it for a while. I'm skeptical about it," said Wanda Blake, a cashier in the electronics section of a Charleston Kmart who fears she was exposed to the tainted water before she got word of the spill. "I know I've ingested it."
By Tuesday morning, officials had given the green light to about 35 percent of West Virginia American Water's customers. Thursday's spill affected 100,000 customers in a nine-county area, or about 300,000 people in all.
The water crisis shuttered schools, restaurants and day-care centers, and truckloads of water had to be brought in from out of state. People were told to use the water only to flush their toilets. Hospitals were flushing out systems as were schools, which hoped to open again Wednesday.
In downtown Charleston, the first section of the city where water was declared safe, few signs of the crisis were visible late Monday and hotel guests were informed they could use everything but the ice machines.
But many businesses remained shuttered in outlying residential neighborhoods. Charleston attorney Anthony Majestro represents several businesses that lost money while shut down and said he has lost count of the numerous lawsuits filed over the spill.
The Charleston Fire Department was continuing to give away cases of bottled water for free, and late Monday afternoon, a steady stream of vehicles crept through a station about a mile north of downtown.
Fire Capt. Eddie Moore estimated that firefighters, police officers and other volunteers at the station had given away 2,500 cases of water Monday _ more than 80,000 16-ounce bottles, or two tractor-trailers full. Firefighters loaded several cases into every vehicle that drove through.
Inside the station, the firefighters were surviving on frozen dinners, and Moore said the licorice smell from the taps was especially strong Monday morning.
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Roanoke Co., VA - Engineers say they know what caused a retaining wall to fail over the weekend near 220, leaving quite a mess on a high profile development being built near Tanglewood Mall.
It happened Saturday soon after heavy rains hit the area.
Luckily no one was hurt, but there are a lot of people wondering what exactly happened.
The engineer who designed the wall at the South Peak development says the partial collapse was apparently an issue that had been developing unbeknownst to anyone, until about 800-square feet of that wall gave way.
The primary factor, according to an engineer, was an improperly installed drainage pipe that has been seeping water for some time.
The problem caused the wall to separate from the geo-grid that holds the wall in place.
That separation was exasperated significantly during Saturday's downpour.
"There was a separation between the curb and gutter and the asphalt pavement that occurred, I believe, after the initial movement of the wall and opened a gap allowing more water to get in there," explained GeoTech Engineer Mike Circeo.
"Things like this happen. Especially when you are dealing with a project of this size and complexity of this one. We're dealing with it the right. While we fix it we will continue to develop the other aspects," said South Peak Developer Hunter Smith.
The rest of the wall has been inspected, ABC 13 has learned, and there are no other issues from what engineers can tell.
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(story has been updated with information from Roanoke County and the project engineer)
We are continuing to follow the South Peak Development wall collapse that happened Saturday, shutting down traffic along US 220. No one was hurt.
The project engineer Mike Circeo with Circeo Geotech says the wall collapsed because of a storm water pipe that was leaking. The water forced the wall out but he says it's more of a cosmetic issue than a structural one.
"The wall itself I think is designed to withstand a certain amount of water that seeps in behind it but when you have a concentrated flow like this there really isn't any way to plan for that. You just need to make sure that work is being done properly so they don't continue to lose water outside the pipe," said Circeo who has been with the project since the beginning.
Engineers, developers and inspectors from Roanoke County and the project have been at the site since Saturday afternoon when this all happened.
Right now Roanoke County tells us they are waiting for a written report from the engineer but says drivers shouldn't worry.
"Certainly it looks like a safety issue but this right now is an active site, meaning construction will continue to take place. that issue it's just the cost of doing business it can be repaired," said Tarek Moneir, the Roanoke County Deputy Director of Development Services who oversees engineering for the county.
Cireco says there could be other pipes affected. There are eight retaining walls and storm pipes between most of the walls. Each pipe will have to be inspected. Cireco says the only way to do that is by a camera. The pipes are all buried six to twenty feet in the ground. If other pipes need to be repaired they can put in a pipe liner instead of digging up the wall.
"The site's been inspected both by the public and private sector. The walls have been engineered. It's an unfortunate event, things like this happen but the only thing that you can do is fix it and move on," said Hunter Smith, the president of Smith/Packett, the South Peak developer.
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A teenager is in an induced coma after allegedly being punched outside a McDonald's in Sydney's west.
Alexander McEwen, 19, and his brother Lance McEwen Henderson, 21, were standing on top of a one-metre-tall retaining wall at the fast food restaurant's car park in Penrith when they were allegedly approached by a man about 1.30am (AEDT) on Saturday.
Police say the man punched both brothers, knocking the younger McEwen over the wall where he struck his head and lost consciousness.
The teen was rushed to Nepean Hospital where he is in critical condition with a fractured skull and damage to his spine.
His brother Lance suffered injuries to his face, including a cut lip.
Their alleged attacker, Corey Beard, 21, appeared at Parramatta court on Sunday where he was granted conditional bail.
Beard was charged with offences including recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm to the teenager as well as assaulting his brother.
He was also charged with possessing steroids after police allegedly found 13 vials of the drug during a search of his home on Saturday.
During the bail application, Sergeant Belinda Laughton told the court the alleged assault had been captured on CCTV and there was a strong prosecution case.
But the Legal Aid lawyer representing Beard said he had told police that he had acted in self-defence.
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