July 16, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 30 feet, but they didn't run a model that shows now there's a 25-foot section that's been excavated out and what does that do now. If you think about it, you got a rock slope, your going to dig down 25 feet, you're going to end up with basically separating that rock slope from the upland or the top of slope and beyond from that bedrock. How stable is the material when they do that? And they're going to basically cutoff that connection to the upper -- the areas above the top of that slope. The model also omitted the presence of the Feltville Formation. If you're not familiar with that, the site at those locations, the basalt picks up the Watchung in this location, it's called the Preakness Formation and it's identified in their report. But just down at the post near the toe of the slope the formation changes to what's called a Feltville. And the Feltville is basically more of a, like a siltstone or a sandstone, siltstone, mud stone type of material, which has a much lower strength. The important thing, the reason I'm bringing this up is, did some of those RQD's of zero and 23 maybe they actually reflected more of that sedimentary formation that is not as strong as the basalt formation of that rock, but it was not modeled and they did not separate out whether it was basalt or the Feltville. They basically -- they modeled it all as