Risk Bumpers

We engineers, from time to time, make a recommendation to do something, not to do something, to wait a period of time before building, or whatever.

Along come the owner, contractor, general engineer, and in the words of Dino, "you geotechnials are too conservative" and try to ignore our recommendations. I no longer care if you do not follow my recommendations. You may receiver a letter like this;

Our recommendations are not binding on you. If you wish to assume greater risk of movement, which is in fact the total risk, you may do so.

Engineered fill suffers from movement from a number of sources:
- time dependent elastic and plastic movements, compaction and consolidation of the underlying soils,
- stress changes and moisture changes in the engineered fill
- swelling or shrinkage brought about by changes in the water table changes due to a new moisture regime

If anyone thinks they can estimate these for the first year, which are the large portions of movements, just have at it and accept the risk.  Anyone who is risk adverse will wait the first year, which will account for something like 50% of the movements.

In summary, you can do as you like, but all movements are your problem.

Service, Robert

But I reflect - what does it matter?
On the brain of scholar, sot and swine;
(on his replete and arid mine)
with equal zest the worm doth dine.

Seneca

We are born unequal, we die equal. 

.... (but don't let the modern human rights activists or modern culture and government in on that fact)

We are all returned, the question is, in which order?

(Demetrius quoted by Seneca) The utterances of the unenlightened are as noises emanating from the belly. It does not mater whether they come from above or lower.

Seneca

Life we receive is not short but we make it so. We are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Enough

Just add a few wolves

Video Of The Day http://biggeekdad.com/2014/02/yellowstone-wolves/

Multi-Chem / Halliburton

Wednesday evening, we were at the public information meeting for  Multi-Chem / Halliburton - Nisku Blend Facility.

After thinking about the presentation, the attitude of Multi-Chem / Halliburton is similar to that of Monsanto. Your life quality is not my concern. Anything that leaves our plant will meet Environment regulations. We will generally meet that, and anything less that that is not our concern. You adjacent land owners are just not our concern.

Much of the regulations can be meet by blowing more air through the monitor. Dilution with clean air. All else is not Multi-Chem / Halliburton concern.

There attitude seems to be "we have complied with the regulations, it is not our concern. " or "If anything go's wrong, whatever fault was committed is not our concern, we are not responsible" This may clear their legal responsible, but what about moral responsibility?   

Putting a chemical plant within a populated area is just not moral, even if it is legal. 

More mis picks

 Blue eyed grass

 butterfly on thistle, Brasseau dam

 Frosty Mountain Ash

Wood Pecker. The big pecker wood kept moving, and would not hold his head still.

 Flower,

 One of the lily family, wild, high country of BC.

 Crab apple, from front driveway, flowers last about 1 day.

N. Saskatchewan, at Devon. Forty years ago, I harvested Gold eye trout from this very spot, and fried they just to the left of here. Onions, butter, cast iron pan, over wood fire. The concrete bridge was not there then, only that old truss thing, one step up from a Bailey. 

Misc Pics

 Lupines Near Wells Gray PP, BC

 Helmcken Falls, Wells Gray

 Crocus, Nisku Pirarie, just over my back fence

 Balies Chute, Wells Gray

Tributary to Athabasca River near Athabasca, Ab

 Peace River at the Confluence of the Smokey River

Fairy across Peace River On Shaftsbury Trail SH740

Assorted Pics

Small belled Pile sign post. This is the positive of the space left by a belling tool in high plastic clay.

This pic needs a turkey vulture in the tree. Rocky Mountian House, N Sask. valley, storm coming.

House cleaning is never done.

Rebar from 1906-1907, and other junk of demo.

In my back yard summer 2012

and 2013