This regulation provides guidance for investigation, maintenance, and remediation drilling in and near embankment dams and levees and/or their earth and rock foundations. including investigation planning, site preparation, borehole advancement, subsurface testing, instrumentation installation, piezometer and well rehabilitation, grouting, and borehole completion.
[pdf] That’s what’s unfolding this week in Alaska, where a Shell drilling rig called the Kulluk broke free from a tow ship in stormy seas on New Year’s Eve before running aground on the southeast coast of Sitkalidak Island, near the larger island of Kodiak.
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