Joel de Jong

Host of the Emerging Future Podcast. The status quo needs to be challenged relentlessly.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

I am literally crying laughing.

[Joel de Jong @joeldejong]

No more witnesses. Ms Nauman requested to do a written closing brief instead of doing an oral closing today. Due October 28 by 5pm. Hearing is closed #cheasthearing

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DH: "We've done more geotechnical work than 90% of the bridge projects I've been involved with. There is no trail project anywhere that I'm familiar with that has done this amount of geotechnical work. We've run this project into the ground, geotechnically." #cheastyhearing

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DH: "This proposal will not cause slope instability. #cheastyhearing

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DH: "Construction of the trail will not negatively affect the slope." #cheastyhearing

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DH: "Cheasty is an active slope. However, It's shallow due to things like rainwater. All deep seated slope movements in Cheasty have been caused by contractors making deeper digs (beyond 10 feet deep) #cheastyhearing

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DH: "Cheasty is unique geometrically like all slopes, not geologically." #cheastyhearing

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DH: "We used the geological map, looked at 30ft deep borings, and various other reports like Rainier Vista, and truthed those to the soil in the field. Everyone involved agreed that there was no added benefit to doing more deep geotechnical borings." #cheastyhearing

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DH: We modeled shaking, taking into account that we were on the Seattle fault zone and the parameters used to emulate the earthquake. #cheastyhearing

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Donald Huling swearing in. Employed by HWA Geoscience. VP and principal geotechnical engineer. #cheastyhearing

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Ms Nauman questioning environmental experts, "Could there be an issue of sediment coming off the trail down into the wetland?" Answer: The design is to disperse storm water continuously off the trail to keep the natural condition of where water would go. #cheastyhearing

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environmental expert: "historical aerial photo records since 1936 show that there has been no deep seated sliding in the area." #cheastyhearing

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the bike path creates no greater hazard for earthquakes or liquifaction #cheastyhearing

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talking about glacial consolidation of the soil at Cheasty... #cheastyhearing

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Environmental consultants giving testimony. relied on previous borings done by City of Seattle and did shallow tests do to the nature of shallow trail impact. #cheastyhearing

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Parks will only put in split rail fence if people go off trail and negatively impact the wetlands #cheastyhearing

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Parks is using Louis Park as a Beacon Hill example of successful, recent steep slope trails that are open #cheastyhearing

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Parks submitted examples of steep slope trails in other Seattle Parks #cheastyhearing

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Trails will be built by volunteers mostly by hand #cheastyhearing

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Parks says there will be no significant "earth impacts" with the proposed trail #cheastyhearing