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water. Aros borings taken, we find that the hard ground
is at a depth of from 20 to 49 feet below ground level.
Me are of opinion that the safest course would be to
take down the work already done and reconstruct the bridge
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hardwood pile foundations, the piles being not less fran 12" x 12", sufficiently long to reach the hard ground and driven to a "set" to be determined according to the weight and fall of the "monkey" used in driving them.
No.5. This is a scall culvert of two 3-foot apans. will be a considerable embankment over the top of it and should any settlement occur, the rank can easily be rade
We do ob anticipate good again without incurring any risk.
any trou le in this case.
There
No. 6. This is one of the main bridges, crossing a future public road slightly on the skew and having a span of 60' 11". The foun iations were started about the end of 906 and the bridge is now completed with the exception
of the erection of the girders,
The embankment has been formed to ita full height
At the time of our inspection
on both sides of the bridge.
there was only one small crack in the south abutment. From borings since taken however;, we havo ascertained that the hard ground is at an average depth of 35 feet below finished road level and we are therefore afraid that, with the lapse of time and the full corpletion of the bridge,
serious zovement is liable to occur.
The materials and workmanship are good and at present there is no reason for taking any action with regard to this bridge. Careful levels shoull however be systematical-
-ly taken and recoris kept of thea
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