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To: Marak
You can't leave bulldozed homes as fill, because lumber is inherently unstable and will settle quickly. Adding more fill to raise the level of the city above sea level would be such a monumental operation (I think I remember seeing an estimate that more than a billion cubic yards of fill would be needed) that it would be very impractical. At 30 cubic yards per truckload, that would be more than 33.3 million truckloads. At 1,000 truckloads per day (that's a huge operation), it would take 91 years just to bring in all that fill.
2,062 posted on 09/01/2005 9:18:20 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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To: Alberta's Child

you dredge the lake and the river bed, and use that as the fill.


2,087 posted on 09/01/2005 9:25:48 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Alberta's Child

Some people do not understand how orders of magnitude make a difference.


2,549 posted on 09/01/2005 11:37:28 PM PDT by Thud
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