All you have to do is look at the stained glass windows of a 400-year-old church to see that the top of each pane is very, very thin and the bottom is very thick because over the centuries it has flowed lower. Gravity can bend or break things, but it can also cause them to flow like a liquid. It’s obvious how the value of the property was substantially increased once everything was made steady and firm through slope stabilization. The home in the image experienced significant erosion on the southern side, resulting in dangerous drop-offs where people or animals could be hurt.Īdding a retaining wall on the south allowed acres of usable land recovery, while on the east side, a gentle slope was stabilized so it was gentle and walkable. You may have a small private home or a massive estate, but anything that deviates from essentially flat can become a problem. Of course, the cliff-side house is not for everybody we generally prefer fairly flat land with paved roads that are accessible by car instead of mule teams and Sherpas. Humans are a strange lot, and we’ve built on most of those surfaces at one time or another. This is where slope stabilization becomes important.

We have craggy, irregular surfaces everywhere, from gentle hills and dales to the soaring peaks of Mount Everest or the plummeting depths of the Grand Canyon. Our planet is not some idealized perfect sphere, like a billiard ball spinning in space.

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