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During a routine check last summer, an alert Muscogee County School District employee discovered hairline cracks in the 53-foot-high retaining wall beyond the new Carver High School's softball field.
Now, those cracks have multiplied and some of those gaps are more than 1-inch wide, but a year's worth of inspections and negotiations has forged a plan for repairs, which are scheduled to start next week.
"I was just doing my job," Rexon Byrd, the district's senior project manager, said with a shrug as he showed the Ledger-Enquirer the cracks Wednesday.
Carver was rebuilt on its Eighth Street site and reopened last August. Freeman & Associates of Columbus and Balfour Beatty Construction of Atlanta are partners as the project's main contractors. Gardner Spencer Smith Tench & Jarbeau of Atlanta is the architect. The $37 million project was funded by the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax voters approved in 2009. Beyond the 225,000-square-foot, 67-classroom building, the project gave Carver the baseball and softball fields it had lacked.
To clear land for those fields, construction workers had to flatten a hill. The dirt that piled up had to be contained, so a retaining wall was built along the rear of the property facing Illges Road.
And this isn't a ho-hum wall; it's five stories high and about two football fields long -- keeping the Delmar Apartments 30 feet away safe from an avalanche.
So what at first looked like only a cosmetic concern turned into a significant problem as the cracks in the bricks and the gaps between the blocks grew.
"The cracks in and of themselves are not structural," said Bobby Hecht, the district's construction director. "The facing of that wall is just a shell.
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A early morning wreck on the ramp of the Ravenel Bridge ended with the rear of a car hanging over the retaining wall.
Charleston police spokesman Charles Francis said it happened around 12 a.m. Wednesday on the off-ramp that leads onto the Crosstown. Francis said the female driver hit the wall while driving across the bridge from Mount Pleasant.
The rear tires of her car hung over the railing.
The driver wasn't injured. The ramp was closed for a short period but was later reopened.
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SARANAC LAKE - The town of Harrietstown will borrow up to $330,000 to replace a retaining wall behind its town hall that was damaged in the spring 2011 flood.
The town board agreed Thursday night to have its budget officer, Mike Kilroy, begin applying for a bond anticipation note (BAN) for the project. Town officials hope some or all of the costs will be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Before the town board agreed to move forward, Councilman Jim Murnane asked why it wouldn't also borrow money, at the same time, for a long list of proposed renovations and upgrades to the town hall, the cost of which have been estimated at nearly $700,000.
"Why aren't we doing it all at once?" Murnane asked.
"We need this so we can go out and get bids," responded Supervisor Bob Bevilacqua. "The rest of the stuff we aren't ready to do yet. And we don't know what the true cost is going to be for anything else. We're going to try and get those costs between now and December."
Councilman Barry DeFuria said he was told the town has to have "money in the bank" before the retaining wall project can get underway.
"I understand that, and I'm happy to move forward with the retaining wall. I don't wish to hold that up," Murnane said. "I just don't want to increase what we're going to pay for interest by (borrowing for the town hall project) separately. Maybe we're not; I don't know."
DeFuria said bond counsel fees and other related costs could be more if the town issues two BANs, "but do you want to borrow a million dollars when you don't even know when you're going to do it and be paying interest on it? I don't want to do that. I'd rather do it as we go along."
Bevilacqua said it would be better to pursue financing and seek bids for the town hall renovations in December or January, as the town might get better prices from contractors when they're less busy.
"You've satisfied my curiosity," said Murnane, who voted with the rest of the board to move forward with the BAN.
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