Powell River Project Series
Information for the Virginia Coalfields

Foundations for Housing
on Reclaimed Mined Lands

Authors: Robert D. Krebs, geotechnical engineer, and Carl E. Zipper, soils researcher, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, Virginia Tech

Publication Number 460-115, posted January 1997

Detail of an adjustable foundation for residences in subsidence prone areas, after Begley, Gray, and Zickefoose (reference 1).

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