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nigelswift
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Two more bits of information slip out
Dec 06, 2007, 19:42
"English Heritage and Skanska engineering are this month completing a £1m rescue bid, opening the old tunnels, strengthening the original props where they could not be opened safely, and packing them solid again with chalk slurry."

So, despite the confident impression given very recently on the other thread, by no means all of Atkinson's props are being removed.

Secondly the tunnels themselves (not just the awkward voids) are to be packed with "chalk slurry". Another word for chalk slurry is "grouting" - the stuff that we were told in no uncertain terms we were wrong to suggest they consider and which wouldn't and couldn't be used because it was so damaging compared with re-entering the tunnels and packing them with dry chalk.

No reason for updates as there is nothing newsworthy eh?
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