[?]ome of the 377 pipe points through which brine was passed to freeze a landslide which was hindering [?]ork on the Grand Coulee Dam, on the Columbia River, in the State of Washington, U.S.A. This [?]nique method held up 200,000 cubic yards of earth which was in danger of sliding into the excava ions made for the concrete foundation of the great irrigation dam. Before it was frozen the earth was moving down at 2ft an hour, but the process arrested the movement.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 16, 12 October 1937, Page 8
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83[?]ome of the 377 pipe points through which brine was passed to freeze a landslide which was hindering [?]ork on the Grand Coulee Dam, on the Columbia River, in the State of Washington, U.S.A. This [?]nique method held up 200,000 cubic yards of earth which was in danger of sliding into the excava ions made for the concrete foundation of the great irrigation dam. Before it was frozen the earth was moving down at 2ft an hour, but the process arrested the movement. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 16, 12 October 1937, Page 8
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