Border Wall Built by Trump's Hand-Picked Contractor Is 'in Danger of Falling into the Rio Grande'

[soothsayer]

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/border-wall-built-by-trumps-hand-picked-contractor-is-in-danger-of-falling-into-the-rio-grande/



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A little-known North Dakota construction firm that was awarded the single largest border wall contract after its CEO effusively praised the president in a slew of conservative media appearances is now defending its product as experts warn the structure is in danger of collapsing, ProPublica and the Texas Tribune reported Thursday.

The company, Fisher Sand & Gravel (FSG), in May was won a record-high $1.3 billion government contract to erect a portion of President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, despite FSG’s prototype being rejected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for lacking in both “quality” and “sophistication.”....

Victor Manjarrez, associate director for University of Texas at El Paso’s Center for Law and Human Behavior said the notion of building so close to the river was “nuts.”

“You’re going to get all the hydrology problems and not even from a flood, just normal ebb and flow. … If I was the sector chief and built something like that, I’d be in so much trouble.” Manjarrez formerly worked Border Patrol’s sector chief in the El Paso area along the Rio Grande.

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. This part is really nuts:

"Under FSG’s design, the foundation for the wall’s steel bollards reach only 2.5 feet into the ground, less than one-third as deep as government usually requires. The shallow foundation combined with the rugged riverbank terrain is reportedly a recipe for disaster."

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. You think that part is nuts how about this?

Three miles of wall-$1.7 billion. Just about $600million per mile. And it's falling down. What kind of infrastructure project with real value to the American people could we have constructed with that money? How many people could have been fed or educated with that money?

https://www.propublica.org/article/he-built-a-privately-funded-border-wall-its-already-at-risk-of-falling-down-if-not-fixed

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. Yes, I do.

I don't claim to be an expert in federal construction costs, but I do know quite a bit about wall construction methods, especially footings.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. First off,they never

designed this wall from the flooding that occurs from time to time. And it appears the soil it is built on is silt.

Once again,Fisher Construction gets a two for. Timber!!!!

[C_U_L8R]

4. They should pay for its removal. It's a hazard.

[soothsayer]

6. Drumpf will award them millions more for removal

[Squinch]

7. Your tax dollars at work.

[BannonsLiver]

8. A great excuse to cancel the project for a potential Biden admin

[Girard442]

9. Even the children's gospel song got it right.

The foolish man built his house upon the sand...

House. Wall. Whatever.

[kimbutgar]

10. Money was probably skimmed to pay the Russian Oligarchs who mf45 owes money to.

[pnwest]

11. Please, dear GOD, please let that wall slide

into the Rio Grande. A perfect visual metaphor for this failed, bullshit, half-assed, Keystone Cops presidency.

[Totally Tunsie]

12. Despite the outlay of $$$ already invested in this joke, I hope President Biden

makes it his mission to tear down every inch of this monstrous mistake.

[chriscan64]

13. If there is damage to the Mexican side...

Will their president have better luck getting us to pay for it than Trump did getting Mexico to pay for the construction?

[crickets]

17. Most likely. nt

[soothsayer]

14. Well most of it was there before trump

He only tacked on 3 miles.

[captain queeg]

15. OMG just like foreign despots, just kiss up to trump and he'll give you anything

How many laws were broken in this fiasco? And the traitorous rethugs look the other way. And also try to shut down the small payments to out of work Americans. I guess his base is just like him, sprinkle it with some cheap dog whistles while overtly destroying America. Lindsey said at the beginning if the rethugs followed trump it would be the end of their party and they’d deserve it. But the rest of America doesn’t deserve it.

[struggle4progress]

16. It sounds like they got the contract because Trump said. Or maybe because Putin said?