Backfill a Retaining wall
This video shows how a Retaining wall should be back-filled to allow for maximum drainage.
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Backfill a Retaining wall
This video shows how a Retaining wall should be back-filled to allow for maximum drainage.
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Backfill a Retaining wall - Video
Q: On southbound Ruchsville Road south of Church Street in Whitehall, we pass a large quarry on the right-hand side of the road. The quarry comes right up to the very edge of the road, which is deteriorating to the point where the supports for two sections of guard rail are being undermined. It's very dangerous to have a steep drop-off to a quarry far below so close to a deteriorating road. Judging by surveyor's stakes with pink ribbons marking what could be a new path of the road to the left, away from the quarry, we were wondering if PennDOT plans to move the road. If not, it should be stabilized and repaired.
Kenneth Peters, Whitehall Township
A: I don't even want to guess how long the trip would be if I drove my tiny car through the guide rail and plummeted to the quarry, or into a portion of Ranger Lake, far below.
The guide rail is there, for now. But as you can see in today's photo, a 2-foot-thick stone wall that had been behind it has broken into pieces and descended a few feet down the embankment. Anchored to the top of that crumbling wall are strands of thick steel cable that probably once prevented wayward vehicles from taking the plunge, before the guard rail was added.
That was my presumption, anyway, before I got PennDOT officials to investigate.
PennDOT engineer Al Picca wasn't quite sure of the wall's intended function either, at least, not by viewing my photographs.
"It piques my curiosity," Picca said after checking the pictures. "What's it supporting? What was its purpose? Just looking at the photo, I didn't see any kind of distress in the roadway rutting, cracks in the surface."
My assumption that it serves, or previously served, as a retaining wall for the road wasn't necessarily correct, Picca said. He speculated that the wall might have been installed by someone other than PennDOT, depending on how far the public right of way extends from the road's edge.
After visiting the site to investigate, PennDOT engineers "confirmed the wall has failed," spokesman Ron Young wrote in an email. This didn't exactly qualify as breaking news; the large chunk missing from between the two sections in the photo has tumbled far enough down the bank that it's not visible in the photo.
Though the wall initially may have been built to stabilize the road, the road itself remains in pretty good shape, said PennDOT engineer Kerri Cutright, who visited the site this week. There's no threat to safety, she said. "There's no undermining of the sub-grade" or other indications of major problems, Cutright said.
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Steep drop-off looms at crumbling wall off Ruchsville Road
(KUTV) Officials say all but three families were allowed to return back to their homes following a landslide that crushed one home, damaged a tennis and swim club, and placed four other homes in immediate danger.
Evacuations were originally issued for 27 homes on Tuesday morning, according to South Davis Metro Fire. Families in three homes in immediate danger of the landslide are still displaced at this time. Officials say residents in all 27 homes must be ready to flee at a moment's notice in case the landslide moves more.
Any residents in need of assistance are being asked to head to the LDS Church on 351 E. Lofty Lane where crews will have supplies available.
Crews are working to help minimize potential damage to the area. Water lines have been shut off and pools along the landslide area have been drained to prevent a potential tidal wave effect. South Davis Metro Fire says they used equipment to build a berm in preparation for heavy rainfall, hoping to channel the water away from the landslide area. Additional soil was also moved around to relieve pressure.
2News Holly Menino was on the scene Tuesday morning when the landslide happened and destroyed one home. She reports neighbors worked quickly to get the family out of the home before it was demolished.
"We watched as they ran from their home this morning and it's just so frightening to see someone you love and care about lose everything they have," said neighbor Janyce Nestman.
Neighbor Judy Peterson says the neighbors offered the family a place to stay, but they declined because they were told by officials they would be fine.
"We weren't fine. People knew we weren't fine," said Peterson. "People that have experienced landslides know what's happening."
The incident started about a week and a half ago on the hill above the Eagle Ridge Tennis and Swim Club on Parkway Drive. Neighbors say they noticed the earth begin to move when a developer began prepping several lots at the top of the hill.
Officials say the approval to build in the area of the landslide was given seven to nine years ago.
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Home collapses after retaining wall failure in North SLC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched an investigation into Wednesdays (July 30) incident where an unidentified construction worker was injured after a retaining wall panel being built on the eastbound lanes of the Jane Addams Tollway (I-90) fell, pinning him on an easement to the tollway near Higgins Road in Rosemont.
The victims name has yet to be released. Construction workers removed the wall panel from on top of the worker using cranes at the site before first responders from the Rosemont Public Safety Department arrived on scene, officials said.
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Water Feature in Kansas City
Stunning water feature project completed by Good Earth Outdoor in the Kansas City area has it all. A wonderful pond, several streams some mellow and some with more severe waterfalls, a pondless...
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London Landscape Inc - Front Yard Retaining Wall Project (one year later)
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Theres nothing quite like a loud crashing noise to rouse one quickly from a deep sleep. Adrenaline is much more efficient than caffeine.
Several nights ago I bolted upright in response to a sound Id never before heard. Thunderous, but the sky was clear. A tour of the house revealed nothing. Then I realized it might be the stone retaining wall in front of the house. Or perhaps better called the not retaining wall. A section of the 4-foot-high wall had collapsed onto the patio stones beneath.
The wall had been under incessant pressure for years. Of uncertain age, it had no drainage or other hedge against endless cycles of frost, thaw and rain. Small shifts had become significant bulges and the collapse was inevitable.
These kinds of nature-induced changes are fascinating. From day to day or month to month the movement is imperceptible to the human eye. Ive looked at the wall week after week for years, never able to identify a change and yet ... there it was, on the ground.
Just like my hip, I thought.
For some 50 years Ive used and abused my body. Name the endurance sport and Ive done and overdone it. Other than the physiological changes from intentional training, or periods of relative sloth, nothing changed much over time. A run or bike workout from one day to the next, or even one year to the next, differed little in pace or comfort.
It is rather like Zenos paradox of Achilles racing a tortoise. If Achilles gives the tortoise a head start of 100 meters, Achilles will quickly reach the tortoises starting point. But the tortoise will have moved some distance, albeit short, in the meantime. Achilles then will reach that new point but, alas, the tortoise will have moved again. The logical analysis is that there will always be some distance, however microscopic, between the position reached by Achilles, previously occupied by the tortoise, and the new position of the tortoise. By this analysis, the tortoise is never caught.
Of course we are the tortoise, and the paradox is an illusion, for we will all be caught by the relentless march of time. Like the stone wall, my hip changed imperceptibly over time, despite my world-class capacity for self-delusion. Just a year ago I was frolicking at Zealand Falls in the White Mountains. Last November I had a delightful 5-mile run on the New York City Marathon course, feeling much better than when I actually ran the New York City Marathon in 1978.
By January I couldnt walk up a single flight of stairs without leading with my good leg. The hip collapse was not as loud as the wall, but just as catastrophic. The imperceptible day-to-day changes left bone rubbing bone and all the willpower in the world wouldnt allow me a jog to the corner.
We cant beat time, but we can buy time. Fortunately, medical advances make hip replacements a relatively simple procedure. Mine was on Feb. 22. I have a new titanium implant with a ceramic ball and polyethylene liner instead of cartilage. My surgeon is among a growing number who see no reason for limitations. I missed only two days of work, was cycling indoors on day four post-surgery, did some careful mountain biking at week five and can now do anything. Conservative doctors may still advise against running or other high-impact activities. My surgeon thinks thats silly. (And its why I picked him.) My hip will last longer than I will. When I expressed worry about crashing on a mountain bike and breaking my hip he said, Yes, you might break your hip, but its more likely youd break your other one. Thats my kind of doctor!
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Updated: Friday, August 1 2014, 04:58 PM EDT
Reported By: Erin Calandra Written By: Marc Stempka
PATTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Check the ditch. That is what some Centre County residents said they need to do every time it rains in their neighborhood, and they say they're sick of doing that and want a retaining wall to help keep water out of their property.
Carolynn Stoicheff has lived on Douglas Drive in the Park Forest area of Patton Township for years. She said her home has been flooded three times and her yard is routinely flooded by heavy rains because of an overflowing drainage ditch in her backyard.
Several years ago, Patton Township officials started construction on a retaining wall for the "Douglas Ditch," as residents call it, to keep the water off of properties. Stoicheff said the wall stops at her property, and wants the wall to be continued.
"Because where the retaining wall ends, it's almost like it pushes [the water] through the yard," Stoicheff said. "We've ripped carpet out, replaced carpet. We've sucked water out of our house."
Stoicheff said if the retaining wall is continued past their properties and down to others from hers, the flooding would all but stop.
The ditch is about four feet deep and is a drainage way for the neighborhood, starting from Park Forest Middle School to the other side of Atherton Street.
Patton Township Manager Doug Erickson said the ditch is the primary area for water to flow.
"It drains several hundred acres upstream of there," Erickson said. "On big storms we can get some flooding."
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Park Forest neighbors seeking end of drainage ditch flooding
Details Published on Thursday, 31 July 2014 02:42 Written by Michele Scott | DrumhellerMail.com
Walmarts failure to fix their broken retaining wall has landed them in hot water with the Town of Drumheller. With the store stonewalling the Town on completing the repairs, Drumhellers Chief Administrative Officer will be paying a visit to the town solicitor seeking enforcement action. Ive asked that administration take it in front of the judge to get a compliance order from the judge, said Mayor Terry Yemen. The judge will set the timeline. The Town is concerned about the stability of the roadway that runs alongside of Walmart and would like the wall repaired to prevent the ground caving in. Were looking at it as a health and safety issue, too. In a July 15 letter to Walmart, CAO Romanetz requested a response from the retailer within seven days providing the Town with a definite construction timeline to fix the wall. The Mayor said the Town received no reply to their recent letter, but in conversations earlier this year, Walmart had told the Town it would be completing the repairs. Its a promise and a commitment made by them to have it fixed in the spring - it didnt happen. There are large areas on the retaining wall that are crumbling, and in two of those locations its easy to see the areas have experienced serious erosion. The Mayor said the reason Walmart gave the Town for not doing the spring repairs was that they had only received one bid for the tender they put out on the work, and their company policy requires at least two bids be received. Mayor Yemen was questioning why the company didnt make another call for tender on the work, Walmart was questioning the Towns jurisdiction, taking the position perhaps the province should be overseeing the matter because the store is located on a provincial highway right-of-way. Yemen says a review of the Town issued building permit to Walmart states the retaining wall is included in the permit, thereby nullifying Walmarts jurisdictional challenge and giving the Town the authority to take action.
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