Whaley Bridge Evacuated

[Woodlover]

2 hours ago, Chalgravesteve said:

I would struggle to believe that the slipway was originally constructed with a void underneath it, if there was a void there all the time

If you lay concrete onto soil then a void will occur over time as the soil will dry out and naturally compact, add gaps in joints to allow water and the void will only get bigger unless the water is contained and then you have swelling, but that is not happening here.

I don't know how this dam was built but I cannot imagine there are no supporting pillars or walls beneath the slabs as they would have sagged or moved along time ago without something supporting them other than soil. 

With the thickness of the concrete and lack of re-bar there must be something other than soil holding that span of concrete up??

 

[aspenarb]

`s , a man in the pub reckoned the damage was caused by some confused Irish muslims in a boat, something to do with fasting iirc

 

Bob

[eggsarascal]

17 minutes ago, Woodlover said:

If you lay concrete onto soil then a void will occur over time as the soil will dry out and naturally compact, add gaps in joints to allow water and the void will only get bigger unless the water is contained and then you have swelling, but that is not happening here.

I don't know how this dam was built but I cannot imagine there are no supporting pillars or walls beneath the slabs as they would have sagged or moved along time ago without something supporting them other than soil. 

With the thickness of the concrete and lack of re-bar there must be something other than soil holding that span of concrete up??

 

The pictures you posted on Sunday don't appear to show any supporting pillars or walls in the area of the collapse.

[eggsarascal]

19 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

`s , a man in the pub reckoned the damage was caused by some confused Irish muslims in a boat, something to do with fasting iirc

 

Bob

Bloody foreigners coming over here ruining the cut.

[Woodlover]

30 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

The pictures you posted on Sunday don't appear to show any supporting pillars or walls in the area of the collapse.

I cannot find any decent pictures of supports but this one may show something ??

 

 

[AHPP]

Just a vaguely connected thought since we’re on the subject of water. If we as a country didn’t use seven litres of drinking water to flush a quarter litre of piss away ten times a day, perhaps we wouldn’t need to store so much water.

[eggsarascal]

2 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Just a vaguely connected thought since we’re on the subject of water. If we as a country didn’t use seven litres of drinking water to flush a quarter litre of piss away ten times a day, perhaps we wouldn’t need to store so much water.

They think the stuff is on tap.

[Woodlover]

4 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Just a vaguely connected thought since we’re on the subject of water. If we as a country didn’t use seven litres of drinking water to flush a quarter litre of piss away ten times a day, perhaps we wouldn’t need to store so much water.

Eggs will prob know if its true but when I was laying drainage a few years ago I was told due to minimum fall levels n that...that pipes full of turds and wet wipes need the piss water to help move em along ...if you just flushed the solids and there was no rain then you may get problems? Also the water must dilute the raw sewage flowing around the system and help control gases and smells? 

[eggsarascal]

2 minutes ago, Woodlover said:

Eggs will prob know if its true but when I was laying drainage a few years ago I was told due to minimum fall levels n that...that pipes full of turds and wet wipes need the piss water to help move em along ...if you just flushed the solids and there was no rain then you may get problems? Also the water must dilute the raw sewage flowing around the system and help control gases and smells? 

A 4"/110mm drain needs a fall of 1' in 40' to self cleanse, old fashioned toilet cisterns were a three gallon flush, way over the top. The new dual flush cisterns are over used on the short flush and don't provide enough water for the drain to clear, this is overcome by most folk showering each day and using washing machines/ dishwashers on a daily basis.

[difflock]

What I trying to say in my earlier post, re the concrete being the problem, was that the concrete on the surface prevented the erosion beneath being seen, though walking the slabs and thumping them with sommat solid should have detected their "boastness", plus the forward slope of the earthen dam would probably have been stabilized by the grass roots, and again without the concrete, any untoward erosion would have been noticed.

BUT, these issues should? have been considered when the dam face was concreted 50 years ago, but possibly were not.