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Slurry grouting - the engineer actually said no-one can predict what might happen if a slurry containing water was introduced into a 4000+ year old dry environment. One of the implications being that slurry might destabilise the structure.

Pressure grouting - rejected on the grounds that it was only normally done when you'd already created a sufficiently stable and strong structure.

With either method what you could not ensure was that all the voids would be filled.

Hi, sbp,
>With either method what you could not ensure was that all the voids would be filled.<

Agreed, but surely a significant reduction in the size of the voids will lead to a significant reduction in void migration, due to the void volume being lessened; no major falls would be possible, because they would have height to fall from?

Peace

Pilgrim

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