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Re: Week 5 update
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Another 2 page article - A half page of text with the same diagram *again*, and the other with a couple of poor photos.

These have firstly collapsed into the Merewether tunnel and the
‘man-hole’ and then spilled down into the Atkinson tunnel after the removal of the roadstone.


So, am I reading this right? They're taking out the old infill (roadstone), and the hill is collapsing in on top of them as they're pulling it out?

Sounds very dangerous to me! How do they intend filling the obvious voids that will be left over their heads when the time comes to fill?

Are there any obvious external signs of further collapse on the surface since they've started tunnellling? Or is it all covered up by the monorail and associated works?

2 pages a week really isn't sufficient at this stage for those of us that can't get down there to the visitor centre to see for ourselves what's going on!

I know you shouldn't anthropomorphise inanimate objects (they don't like it when you do that), but I wouldn't mind betting that the Hill is suffering at the moment...


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ocifant
Posted by ocifant
18th June 2007ce
20:45

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