groundwater

From its very first issue, this magazine has made one key point over and over again:  Soil conditions determine the way a watershape’s shell is constructed; to achieve success in construction, the approach must be established by a competent engineer and followed on site.   Through the years, numerous contributors to the magazine have described the process of placing watershapes on hillsides or dealing with soil conditions that lead to differential settlement.  So far, however, relatively little attention has been paid to the challenges of working in locations where