1ctq. You are considering building a home in rural Kentucky. You
know the area is underlain by limestone, and you are concerned about
possible karst hazards. What are some of your concerns? What might you
do to determine where to build your home?
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You work in the planning department in one of the parishes (counties)
close to New Orleans. What would you advocate in the long term and in
the short term to protect your community from subsidence and flooding?
Consider both regional and local solutions to the problem.
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You have inherited a ranch house built on a concrete slab on clay soil
in a suburb east of Denver, Colorado. How would you determine if the
house is built on expansive soil? If you found that the soil was
expansive, how would you minimize damage from the shrinking and swelling
of the soil?
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You would like to build a home in a desert community in Arizona or New
Mexico. What would you look for to determine if subsidence or soil
volume change is a potential problem? What could you do to protect your
investment?
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As a town council representative in a small village in New England or
Ontario, Canada, you have been asked to approve a building permit on
property that is partly underlain by silty glacial deposits and partly
by a marsh. What questions should you ask the permit applicant regarding
planned construction on the silty soil and the applicant’s proposal to
drain and build on the wetland?
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Defend or criticize the contention that soil erosion is threatening our
civilization, as it has done to previous societies that have
disappeared or literally eroded away.
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What might be the reactive policies following sudden formation of a
large collapse sinkhole measuring 200 m (~650 ft.) in diameter and 30 m
(~100 ft.) deep in a housing area? How might these policies compare to
proactive steps that could be taken before the event? Which plan of
action is better? Why?
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