On The Land Side, Venice Floodprotection Shored By Sheet Piles

July 13, 2010 rockman Project Related Comments Off on On The Land Side, Venice Floodprotection Shored By Sheet Piles
Z-Section sheet piles from ArcellorMittal used in Venice, Italy

Z-Section sheet piles from ArcellorMittal used in Venice, Italy

About two-thirds of a 57-km-long “fence” of sheet piling has already been driven to encircle polluted industrial sites in Porto Marghera that flow into a 550-sq-kilometer lagoon. [Source: ENR: Engineering News Record. Image: Peter Reina, ENR]

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September 16, 2010 rockman Available Resources Comments Off on Corps of Engineers Planning Additiional Sheet-Piling and Deep Soil Mixing along New Orleans Levees

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