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The Water Resources Department (WRD) is contemplating constructing two more retaining walls in the city to protect the people living on the banks of the Krishna river from floods.The WRD already began the construction of a 1.5-km-long…

PUNE Before the BJP asks the state government for help in erecting retaining walls damaged by flooding in Pune, it should first answer what it has done so far as the ruling party of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).The…

By Cathy Iwane S.Edison's Southern California Community Engagement Panel, funded by interest payers, is a sham. The panel's public relations work quickly moves the utility's agenda forward, but is sluggish, if not silent, in answering…

Enter a caption (optional)Building a retaining wall in the traditional way (above) is not a trivial proposition. So the do-it-yourselfers came up with an interesting trick: instead of playing around with mortar, they…

Don't let the seams and cracks between the wall bricks run very far without a brick blocking the path of the seam. A good rule of thumb for building a wall is that one brick should sit on top of two and two bricks on one. Anyone can only…

The municipality of Coonoor uses the plastic waste generated in the city as an alternative material for the construction of retaining walls. K.Balu, Commissioner for the Coonoor Municipality (CMC), said that most of the plastic waste…