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 66 slope. The worst area was the north, the northeastern side of the corner by 15 Howell, I believe it is. That's where you were getting RQD's of like zero. THE PUBLIC: And what about the part of the slope near the area where you're excavating for the parking, what was that like? THE WITNESS: What was that like? THE PUBLIC: Yeah. In terms of stability, in terms of strength of the rock. THE WITNESS: Let me look to see where they took the borings in comparison to the -- it looks like when they printed this out, this is 24 by 36 not eight and half by 11. Let me look, just take a look at this a little closer. Well, let's see. They did borings, they did test pits in that area. There were no borings -- there's one boring in the right northeastern corner, which was NLB-4. And look at the NLB-4 quality, that boring log. NLB-4 they identified -- they stopped drilling down 22 feet. So they didn't go -- I'm sorry, they didn't go as deep as the buildings going to be but they went down 22 feet and according to LB-4 they were getting, they got RQD's of 52 and 93. 52 would be just above what's considered fair. And it goes into, that it looks like right over the border it goes into 50. 50 is the cutoff between poor and fair and it ends up going