March 07, 2011
To the Editor:
I have read, over the past year or so, all about the DPW building with not a lot of interest. All of a sudden, however, a connection to the problem for me (actually my mother) becomes clear.
Some years ago, in the early 90's, my mother bought two plots of land that had been leveled with fill at 7 Braden Court - right below Ed Moulton's house. All inspections passed for the house built, including for the in-ground pool built next to the house.
The house was sold after my Mom died in 1997. Later, moving back to the area, I noticed huge tarps over the side of the slope heading down to River Road. There was no pool.
Of course! There is no way fill on a slope will hold back a gravitational pull of a 20' x 40', nine-foot-deep pool, all because of the inherent instability of fill (was it compacted to specifications?). Was the DPW building fill base compacted to specs?
Interesting.
James Bell
Cornwall-on-Hudson
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