House Collapsed into the Water

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Meanwhile, the construction foreman is nowhere to be seen...
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It seems that cause and effect has been established: the landfill was indeed responsible for the collapse of the neighbouring restaurant. The restaurant owner says that not enough compensation was offered and the landfill operator has fled:

No Solution on Menu for Restaurant Owner
The owner of Chroy Changvar’s riverside Boeung Samraong restaurant, which sunk into the Mekong last month after a neighboring land filling operation collapsed one of its support columns, has refused the small compensation offered to him by the operation’s owners.

“According to my conversation with the victim, he wants the culprit to come for a negotiation after the compensation that was offered to him was unacceptable,” said Prek Leap commune chief Preab Mony.

“They [the owners of the land filling operation] also used bad language with the victim. They said they offered $40,000 in compensation as concession.”

The use of the word “concession” angered the eight-year-old restaurant’s owner, Lieutenant Colonel Meas Chhon, as his business, worth an estimated $250,000, was entirely destroyed in the collapse on June 21.

Mr. Mony described the current state of negotiations between the two parties as at a standstill, with the owner of the land filling operation having fled and changed his phone number... http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27015/ ... ant-owner/
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Most buildings in deltas are just sitting on a big marshmallow. The piles just provide friction to keep them upright. Or they have raft slab and float. This building I am in now is sitting on swampy mud in Australia.
In earthquakes even on apparently solid ground the whole mess forces its way to the surface, it happened to Christchurch. I forget what it is called. I do know someone who drove piles down to the solid riverbed on the Bassac. It was a long way down and there was burnt rotten tree matter down there. Thousands of years of silt build up.
The Mekong used to empty into the gulf in Laos where those islands are near the border. Over time the silt formed Cambodia, hence very few minerals in most of the country.
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willyhilly wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2019 12:41 pm Most buildings in deltas are just sitting on a big marshmallow. The piles just provide friction to keep them upright. Or they have raft slab and float. This building I am in now is sitting on swampy mud in Australia.
In earthquakes even on apparently solid ground the whole mess forces its way to the surface, it happened to Christchurch. I forget what it is called.
Soil liquefaction occurs when a saturated or partially saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an earthquake or other sudden change in stress condition, in which material that is ordinarily a solid behaves like a liquid.
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