LIME STABILIZATION OF LEVEE SLOPES
The U.S. Army Engineer District, Vicksburg, has developed a procedure for using lime in repairing slough slides that occur in the riverside slope of the Main Line Mississippi River Levees. Since 1964, approximately 450 main line levee slides have been repaired. After studying the cause and occurrence of these slides between 1968 and 1982 a procedure was developed for using lime to repair the slides. The history and results of those slide studies, the description of the repair procedures, and the performance of repaired slides to date are discussed in this paper.
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Corporate Authors:
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamation, 1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20240 Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1000 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC United States 20314-1000Environmental Protection Agency
401 M Street, SW
Washington, DC United States 20460Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Fleming, R L
- Sills, G L
- Stewart, E S
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Conference:
- Proceedings. Second Interagency Symposium on Stabilization of Soils and Other Materials
- Location: Metaire, Louisiana
- Date: 1992-11-2 to 1992-11-5
- Publication Date: 1992-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: 8p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Calcium oxide; Landslides; Levees; Liming of soils; Soil stabilization
- Geographic Terms: Mississippi River
- Old TRIS Terms: Slides (Earth)
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Marine Transportation; I42: Soil Mechanics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00635104
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Aug 20 1993 12:00AM