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 48 basically my right-hand is showing the slope and my left-hand being vertical being the foundation of the building, you now isolated that bedrock. So what does that do in terms of stability. Can it stand on its own or could there be potentially like, for example, drainage issues or things like that getting into the rock now that it's unstabilized. MR. KLEIN: Is that when they were saying the rocks are tilted uphill, so it was less likely? THE WITNESS: They were saying that, but they also looked at the superficial exposed rock, but if you look at the rock below grade, the grading down slope, they're in an entirely different condition. MR. KLEIN: So even though the upper rocks on the slope are tilted up the toe of slope is where you're referring to it is going to erode? THE WITNESS: So what we do when constructing a slope -- MR. KLEIN: Well, you're not constructing this. THE WITNESS: No, I'm going to explain. This is sort of the physics of it. When you build a slope you can't build from the top down. Until you start dumping material over it. A slope needs something as you build it up to support it. So if the material at