Riverside piling
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Riverside piling
Image: © Michael Trolove Taken: 9 Apr 2010
A site destined for redevelopment being piled. The drilling machine has a concrete pump attached directly to it so that when the drilling depth has been reached the hole is back filled with concrete as the auger is raised. This must be because the ground is too unstable to support an open hole or it may be a slurry being pumped in to hold the soil in place. This would then allow for a steel reinforcing cage to be dropped in the hole. Concrete could then be back filled to the pile hole whilst the slurry is pumped out I await a civil engineer to correct the summary.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.973207
Longitude
-0.0229