Portway Trouble at Fill

PORTWAY : Bridge Valley Road wall and floods,

south slide and 1974 event. In 1974 City of Bristol and DTp were advised by the

Civil Engineering consultants appointed that the rock wall so favoured by

climbers at the car park green recess was impracticable to save and although

Bristol Council members and engineers were concerned over services in the

Portway road that the precipice needing taking back to relieve the rocking

action that had set into the cliff face. The City refused, the prospective

engineers resigned the contract as the slab was so unstable and pinning (rock

bolt) would have required too great a stress load. Later some cut back had to

be enforced with the Portway closed and many net units were rock bolted into

the Avon Gorge face. Canopy as described herein was utilized in Austria at that

date and adopted for the section below the Suspension Bridge, where the

"Brunel" foundations are juxtaposed with highly cavernous solution

reduced Cardoniferous Limestone mass blocks at rest (William J. Larnach &

Reginald Bradshaw University of Bristol and other reports in Engineering

Geology, University of Bristol, aver there is no immediate danger, but the site

is less than suited to alteration of high bearing stress dependency if not

monitored and for new build). It is likely if the records are read that even

with pins the base nature of the riparian edge and types of rock therein do not

suit support of block limestone above. The recent 2010 closure of Portway

Bridge Valley Road is just one session in a number of engineering works,

including the loss of the basement road river alluvial edge, piled and service

pipes. Further authors, investigators are referred on Acrobat com, where some of my fair rendered hours of your 'boredom' can be enjoyed on related issues, these much less well documented at mdsess2009 than those other authors can better be relied upon to present, to which I would prefer you worked. If I can send students to sleep in lectures ... what limit is there to potential energy ?

To The East of Portishead

Along the Plains of Tidal Reach

Fell a little sea wall

Rock on the edge of Hope

The Little Green Eye god

of the Rating housing local

has propped up Portbury Dock,

basins, cliffs and Focal

Points of military search

Submariners seeking Church

Men dropping off the bridges

Flying into Clifton ridges