August 13 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 52 that would -- I have not seen a failure after something had been built. I've seen, anecdotally over in Watchung, Plainfield, you know, I was once overseeing a project for a geotechnical firm I was working for and the ground seemed they were filling the side slopes and the building had sloped and I happened to be -- looked a little funny like the machine was on jello and it was June and they started doing the test pit and excavation, they went down about 15-feet there was snow. My firm wasn't there to oversee the initial project, so I had to take the soil down. But I mean, those things could happen. You asked about adequate oversight and if it's designed, you know, the engineer that designs it has to pay close attention to the oversight construction. THE PUBLIC: So going back to my first question. Again, you may not have seen this in your experience but considering how little distance there is from the edge of that building to the slope, is it your opinion that there is even enough space in order to do appropriate remediation? Or is that doubtful. THE WITNESS: You have to do the work on the slope itself. I mean, that's not necessarily easy, it can be done. There's contractors out there that can do it. My recommendation last time was to move the building back. Move it way from the slope.