Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 285
of the sand, they were driven into it; and where not, they were driven about 30 feet — an extraordinary and difficult thing to do, and, so far as the writer is aware, was never before accomplished in this vicinity with sheet piling of such length and thickness. After the piling was in place the… … Section of Stony Brook Dam. base of concrete there was erected a core wall, 8 feet in thickness at the bottom, brought up to about the natural level of the bottom of the old pond, and from this level to 3 feet below the top of the dam, battering on the down stream side to 3 feet in thickness. This…
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