{"id":10309,"date":"2019-05-28T12:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2019-05-28T12:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:10:50","slug":"shouldve-called-a-soils-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10309","title":{"rendered":"Should’ve called a soils engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a delicious irony for you: Heavy rains damaged access<\/a> to Ark Encounter<\/i>, the colossal make-believe Noah’s Ark used by Ken Ham to fleece the gullible.<\/p>\n

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Owners of a replica of Noah’s Ark are suing their insurers, saying the companies failed to adequately cover damage to the surrounding property caused by heavy rain.<\/p>\n

The ark itself — a 510-foot wooden ship modeled after the biblical ark — made it through the rain just fine, a representative for Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, told CNN. But the rainfall in 2017 and 2018 caused a “significant landslide”<\/span> on the property, which undermined an access road leading to the massive wooden vessel.<\/p>\n

As a result, the access road was unsafe to use …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve no idea whether Ark Encounter<\/i> served as its own general contractor on the project, or if it was turned over to some design-build firm, or what, but this is a type of failure that any competent soils (or geotechnical, my specialty) engineer would have investigated prior to site design. Interestingly, the story makes no mention of a suit against the engineers, so I’m guessing that none was consulted.<\/p>\n

I’ve never been to Ark Encounter<\/i>, and am not going to ever debase myself by going, but there’s a video tour here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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