Soil Piping under Seawall
Regardless of the slings and arrows directed at me, I still have a responsibility to ask the questions and make statements based on those facts presented to me while sitting on the Board as a supervisor. The facts I present are from reports from all the engineers involved, present and past.
It is instructive to be familiar with the details in documents from the engineers as well as from the present Board members in reports they have shared over time. There have been significant changes from the past to now.
For example, one major issue I brought up was the movement of our upland soils going under the wall. In recent CDD meetings, the engineers say that is not happening. However, in speaking at length with the former District Engineer, he told me he witnessed it, (piping/boiling), first-hand. This raises the question again of whether soil migration contributes to the observed upland damage and its role in seawall failure over time.
