Dry Dock #3, Philadelphia Naval Yard - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Compaction Grouting ry Dock #3 was built in 1917 for the US Navy’s World War I era battleships. Designed as a water- tight enclosure and stabilized against hydrostatic uplift by its own weight, the 1,000 foot-long, 140 foot-wide concrete structure was built by driving sheetpiles through the overlying sands and gravel into the native red clay so that excavation and dock construction could be accom- plished in the dry. However, some sheetpiles were

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