Nicholas Geti wrote: > Pete, the land would not settle if the water level didn't rise. That is just > engineering sense. I have a degree in Engineering from Illinois Institute of > Technology so I know a little about this condition.
Hi Nicholas, The quote was from your article, didn't you notice it before you posted it? Here in Florida the land settles, maybe a lot, when the water level in the aquifer recedes. But there in Norfolk it was *fill* under the houses, which probably had a lot of voids and decaying debris in it. The water rose as well, but the difference wasn't all water level. Nowadays they compact fill if it is going to be under a structure. >> See, Leland I don't get all my news from Fox. In fact I get daily updates >> from the New York Times. Here is a good one about the oceans rising and >> damaging Virginia's coast line due to global warming. >> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/science/earth/26norfolk.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2 >> >> Even the naysayers must admit something is going on here. > Hmm, "Like many other cities, Norfolk was built on filled-in marsh. Now > that fill is settling and compacting. In addition, the city is in an > area where significant natural sinking of land is occurring. The result > is that Norfolk has experienced the highest relative increase in sea > level on the East Coast — 14.5 inches since 1930". > > So it isn't *just* the rising sea levels, but *also* the sinking land > and land fill. .18 inch per year - not even a quarter inch - over 80 > years. 80 year old homes typically need some rebuilding anyway, why not > raise them a couple of feet and regrade the lots and streets? Be good > for another 80 years if they do it right. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
