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Milwaukee Sinks as Ebbing Groundwater Undermines Its Foundations

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I found this article interesting as hell, thought I'd share.

Problem facing Milwakee. The thought of dumping an incredible volume of water under your foundation to save it would be the complete opposite of "normal".

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...g-groundwater-undermines-its-foundations.html

then found this:
upload_2014-4-4_9-4-34.png


EDIT:
Found this map reading further into this. Boston is seeing the same thing. people around Boston pump their basements at the peril of older neighboring buildings, (trinity church is rotting)
Map from the 1600's vs today: Orange is original land, the rest is built on piers and fill !! (probably before excavators and dozers !)
Bostonlandfill-1882.jpg
 
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