California's recent storms exposed how aging retaining walls, many built without modern geotechnical and seismic design, are now failing under extreme rainfall, soil movement, and landslide pressure.

It’s tragic to spend the time and money to build a retaining wall only to have it fail. Unstable walls can be dangerous; at the very least they are a discouraging waste of resources. Over the years we ...

A state Department of Transportation internal committee met this week to advance a project to study damage to a retaining wall that supports a raised section of Route 80 near the Delaware Water Gap, ...

A year ago Monday, police and firefighters swarmed a hilly, Northwest Side neighborhood issuing evacuation orders to the owners of 91 homes. The images from Rivermist of huge fault lines opening in ...

Caltrans has opened another lane on eastbound Interstate Highway 580 east of Livermore following the failure of a retaining wall last week that closed two lanes, Caltrans officials said Friday. The ...

BELLMAWR, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Almost two years after the failure and partial collapse of a retaining wall along I-295 in Bellmawr, New Jersey, state officials say work will begin to replace the wall ...

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The collapse of a newly constructed retaining wall on I-295 south in Bellmawr in March was blamed on groundwater issues, state Department of Transportation officials said Monday. “What we have learned ...

DIDN’T HOLD UP. NEW VIDEO FROM UP ABOVE SHOWING THE MAGNITUDE OF A RETAINING WALL FAILURE IN BRIGHTON. A LANDSLIDE ED DOWN TO A CONDO COMPLEX, PARKING LOT BELOW. I DO NOT BELIEVE IT. YEAH, THIS WAS ...