| Road surface in Wiltshire on 09:52 - Mar 1 with 422 views | EdwardStone |
You need to look at the shape of the landscape
If the road is on a hillside, even a slight hillside, then the land will naturally wish to make its way down to the bottom of the valley
It usually does this in a series of landslips.... a problem exacerbated if you have taken a "notch" out of the hill to make a level area along the contour to build a house or even a road
There have been similar landslips all over the country made worse by extreme precipitation
The conventional solution is concrete piling to stabilise the hillside..... a greener solution is bio-engineering and using gabions and appropriate planting to arrest any further slip
I'm not saying it isn't fracking, but without visiting the site, my first suspicion is Gravity |  | |  |
| Road surface in Wiltshire on 10:10 - Mar 1 with 399 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Road surface in Wiltshire on 09:52 - Mar 1 by EdwardStone |
You need to look at the shape of the landscape
If the road is on a hillside, even a slight hillside, then the land will naturally wish to make its way down to the bottom of the valley
It usually does this in a series of landslips.... a problem exacerbated if you have taken a "notch" out of the hill to make a level area along the contour to build a house or even a road
There have been similar landslips all over the country made worse by extreme precipitation
The conventional solution is concrete piling to stabilise the hillside..... a greener solution is bio-engineering and using gabions and appropriate planting to arrest any further slip
I'm not saying it isn't fracking, but without visiting the site, my first suspicion is Gravity |
Yep. And if this happened 5-6 days ago it was just after a lot of rain. I don’t know about Wiltshire, but over here it’s been pissing down through Feb, with a lot of rain the weekend before last. So a slip looks the most likely reason, but as you say you’d need to see the site. |  |
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| Road surface in Wiltshire on 10:31 - Mar 1 with 382 views | Guthrum |
| Road surface in Wiltshire on 09:52 - Mar 1 by EdwardStone |
You need to look at the shape of the landscape
If the road is on a hillside, even a slight hillside, then the land will naturally wish to make its way down to the bottom of the valley
It usually does this in a series of landslips.... a problem exacerbated if you have taken a "notch" out of the hill to make a level area along the contour to build a house or even a road
There have been similar landslips all over the country made worse by extreme precipitation
The conventional solution is concrete piling to stabilise the hillside..... a greener solution is bio-engineering and using gabions and appropriate planting to arrest any further slip
I'm not saying it isn't fracking, but without visiting the site, my first suspicion is Gravity |
IIRC that road runs across a marsh and up the side of the hill at Lyneham. |  |
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| Road surface in Wiltshire on 10:34 - Mar 1 with 376 views | giant_stow |
Its those giant worm things from that film Tremors. |  |
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