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To: Steve Van Doorn

250 feet to bedrock they went cheap on the initial foundation with friction piles into clay obviously not enough of them.

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64 posted on 02/25/2022 4:47:20 PM PST by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: JD_UTDallas
said, "friction piles into clay obviously not enough of them"
Think of a pin cushion. You put in a lot of small pins into the cushion the cushion itself will push down when you put something on top of the pins. It's not that they didn't have enough. They where not through the pin cushion into the rock below.

It's down by an inch in the center. That building my not make it before the fix.
66 posted on 02/25/2022 10:58:36 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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