In 2008, heavy rains caused a 20-foot steel-wall road repair in California to fail; in 2009 crews rebuilt the slope using 330,000 waste tyres and saved $300,000
- Sonoma Mountain road failure and TDA placement in progress.
- A California road repair project took an unusual turn after heavy rains caused a previous reconstruction to fail.
- Instead of using another traditional retaining-wall system, engineers filled the damaged section with hundreds of thousands of discarded vehicle tires.
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- Sonoma Mountain road failure and TDA placement in progress.
- A California road repair project took an unusual turn after heavy rains caused a previous reconstruction to fail.
- Instead of using another traditional retaining-wall system, engineers filled the damaged section with hundreds of thousands of discarded vehicle tires.
Sources: Times of India