Wiseman Ferry: Cutting Stabilisation: Domestic
Retaining Specialists focused on identifying potential sources of damage and assessing chance of damage occurring:
Site prior to commencement of work
Problems to be solved:
Minor Hazards: Smaller long term/ongoing sources of potential damage (managed by good house-keeping); like creation of stable batters on soil & colluvium, or preventing further erosion & undermining of clay filled joints by sealing with concrete, or removing uncontrolled water flow via PVC piping.
Major Hazards: Larger, obvious sources of potential damage, like the big boulder or large trees falling on the house being removed or engineer stabilised.
Drilling on ropes to remove floaters
Descaling using EWP
Solutions:
Large Rock Boulder above western end of cut face needs to be underpinned and rock bolted, or, removed.
Floaters (round boulders), sub-vertical rock wedge and clay lenses, above centre of cutting. Remove.
Three large trees. One is already dead and in real danger of falling down. The other two are mature; one has already begun to lean down slope, overhanging the edge of the rock cutting.
Floaters (round boulders), sub-vertical rock wedge and clay lenses, above centre of cutting to be removed.
Descaling process underway