When it looked like Reservoir Hill would not support a multi-story apartment building, something had to give. It was the hill. It certainly wasn't going to be the developer who removed the offending part of the historic hill to safely erect his high-rise apartment on the cleared land.
It is one of the largest, most complex retaining walls I have ever seen. It is three tiers high with each tier possibly taller than any single retaining wall in the London area. It is surely among the largest, highest, deepest retaining walls in the province.
This wall is quite the accomplishment. Much smaller walls in the neighbourhood, ones not three feet high holding back a comparatively small amount of earth collapse regularly. Holding back the earth from a hill is damn hard. So far, the developer's wall has succeeded where many believed he would fail.
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Until the day it doesn't.
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