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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Cutting corners everywhere': Engineers say parts of Trump's wall will collapse .....
Cutting corners everywhere: Engineers say parts of Trumps wall will collapse months after it was builthttps://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/cutting-corners-everywhere-engineers-say-parts-of-trumps-wall-will-collapse-months-after-it-was-built/
A new engineering report set to be filed in federal court has said that Republican President Donald Trumps privately constructed 3-mile border fence, built in 2020 by North Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gravel, will fall down due to extensive erosion in a matter of months if its not fixed and maintained.
The wall was built by the nonprofit We Build the Wall, a group thats currently under federal investigation for illegally spending most of the $25 million it raised to help President Donald Trump build a wall along the U.S./Mexico border.
Fisher Sand and Gravel company president Tommy Fisher, a regular Fox News guest, had called his companys fence the Lamborghini of border walls. However, Alex Mayer, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso told the Texas Tribune. Its not a Lamborghini, its a $500 used car . It seems like they are cutting corners everywhere.
Mark Tompkins, an environmental engineer hired by the National Butterfly Center wildlife refuge to examine the wall for a lawsuit alleging that Trumps wall is destroying the local ecology, said that heavy rains, flooding, and erosion common to the Rio Grande Valley where the wall is located will likely cause it to tumble in a matter of months.
When extreme flow events, laden with sediment and debris, completely undermine the foundation of the fence and create a flow path under the fence or cause a segment of the fence to topple into the river, unpredictable and damaging hydraulics will occur, Tompkins wrote in a court affidavit.
A second report by the Millennium Engineers Group found that gaps up to three feet wide and waist-deep, concrete cracking, construction flaws caused by substandard construction material will cause the wall to fall soon as well.
Fisher has said that the reports findings are normal post-construction issues. The Trump Administration has given Fishers firms $2 billion in federal contracts to build more border wall segments.
The wall was built by the nonprofit We Build the Wall, a group thats currently under federal investigation for illegally spending most of the $25 million it raised to help President Donald Trump build a wall along the U.S./Mexico border.
Fisher Sand and Gravel company president Tommy Fisher, a regular Fox News guest, had called his companys fence the Lamborghini of border walls. However, Alex Mayer, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso told the Texas Tribune. Its not a Lamborghini, its a $500 used car . It seems like they are cutting corners everywhere.
Mark Tompkins, an environmental engineer hired by the National Butterfly Center wildlife refuge to examine the wall for a lawsuit alleging that Trumps wall is destroying the local ecology, said that heavy rains, flooding, and erosion common to the Rio Grande Valley where the wall is located will likely cause it to tumble in a matter of months.
When extreme flow events, laden with sediment and debris, completely undermine the foundation of the fence and create a flow path under the fence or cause a segment of the fence to topple into the river, unpredictable and damaging hydraulics will occur, Tompkins wrote in a court affidavit.
A second report by the Millennium Engineers Group found that gaps up to three feet wide and waist-deep, concrete cracking, construction flaws caused by substandard construction material will cause the wall to fall soon as well.
Fisher has said that the reports findings are normal post-construction issues. The Trump Administration has given Fishers firms $2 billion in federal contracts to build more border wall segments.
And somewhere, somehow, there are bound to be kickbacks that tRump will profit from.
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'Cutting corners everywhere': Engineers say parts of Trump's wall will collapse ..... (Original Post)
groundloop
Sep 2020
OP
tanyev
(42,553 posts)1. Hells bells, how you gonna skim off money for yourself if you don't cut corners?
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)2. Cheap and flimsy
Just like the man himself
Hekate
(90,674 posts)3. Let it fall. Let the rubble stand as a memorial. Call it Trump's Folly. nt
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. Who could have possibly seen this coming ?
dameatball
(7,397 posts)5. Not gonna laugh cuz it's just one more pile of crap Biden is gonna have to fix. But that's okay.
keithbvadu2
(36,793 posts)6. 'nonprofit' - except for a certain few.
'nonprofit' - except for a certain few.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,468 posts)7. It was always a scam.
My question is, what was Trump's cut?