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January 22, 2009

City studies two fixes for eroding seawall

  • One solution would mix cement with the soil behind the existing sheet pile wall while the other would drill a secant pile wall behind the sheet pile wall.
    • By MARGIE SLOVAN
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [enlarge]
    The city of Seattle wants to reinforce the Alaskan Way seawall and reface its corroded sheet pile wall.

    THE CITY OF SEATTLE has decided on two possible ways to fix some of the Alaskan Way seawall, parts of which are almost 90 years old.


     
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