Bad Engineering number 2

I said in yesterday’s blog “ IF that isn’t bad enough – you should see how they built it, even I think I could do better…!”

So here is a bit about how it is built. Italics are part of BWs response:

In order to put the pontoon in “The original bank has been reinstated with tubular piles and stone which has eroded over the years as a result of  boaters pushing up against the bank to turn”

Here is the bank with the tubular piles and "Since the timber  fender has been installed on top of the piles it has made it look worse but it is just the one pile slightly shifted. “

Looks like 6 piles have shifted to me, and I don’t think they are ‘slightly shifted’ at all, but rather extravagantly shifted.

Lets look at how the wood was put on top. There is a block of wood in the tubular pile to which the wood is fastened:

But not on all the tubular piles

and if you look carefully at the first picture again you can see that where the boards join there is no support, I have drawn a pretty red arrow to make it clear:

Construction? This is NOT construction, it is terrible.

BW say “The new bank protection does look like its failing, but what has actually happened is that when the stone backfill was placed one of the piles moved slightly, we didn’t remove all the stone and start again but we have agreed with Land & Water to keep an eye on it.  Since the timber  fender has been installed on top of the piles it has made it look worse but it is just the one pile slightly shifted. “