Martinez Historical Photo September 2001
Lie One: The bank separating from the wall creates an emergency.
Lie Two: There Is no foundation or footing to the wall.
Lie Three: The cracks are evidence of new beaver damage.
I don’t know much about baseball. Remind me again, what is it that happens after three strikes? You know the more I look at the footing along the bottom, the more I recognize that pattern. Click on the picture to zoom in. Where have I seen it before? It’s kind of like crennulations. Kind of like…um…THIS
Don’t tell me that we spent half a million dollars to install sheet piling in front of sheet piling. Well I guess we did, this helps me understand the staff report much better.
Staff believes the photo shows an un-engineered sheet pile wall along a short section of the Bertola wall. This work was apparently done by City maintenance staff during the original channel construction. No records of the design of this section of the wall or supporting structural calculations have been found.
If no records exist how do we know it was “un-engineered”. What exactly does a “short section” mean? Looks like at least half to me. How far does it go down? No wonder they wanted the area filled up with concrete so that no one would ever find the secret wall built behind another wall.
