Trumps Border Wall Sh*t Just Got Real-Texans Receive Notices To Sell Or Have Their Land Taken

[haele]

49. If the same ACoE contractors or their affilieates that "repaired" the pre-Katrina levy are used....

The "wall" protecting the US from the Rio Grande will fail within 5 years due to flooding and the erosion that flooding will do to the footings on the river side.
Doubt they'll ensure footings will be wide enough or go deep enough to keep a 30' high "wall" up in that area, especially if the thing is only going to be a foot or two wide.
They'll just run an averaged terrain and substrate model for the plans, and figure it would be just like putting together a wall of Legos to keep the turtles out of a typical garden bed - all 2K + miles of wall. After all, it's a line on a map crossing only three or four major types of terrain, right? It costs real money that doesn't exist to model and build every section specific for all the terrain out there...


Y'know, all those big contractors that sub out with KGR and Haliburton all the time. And they always take shortcuts.

Haele