Problem Two different industrial food storage and processing facil- ities faced similar challenges due to weak soils and water drainage issues. In Murray, Kentucky, a 50,000-gallon milk storage tank and two adjacent buildings at a dairy processing facility were all settling due to a high water table and fine grained soils beneath the structures. Meanwhile, in Canton, Kansas, a grain handling facility was experiencing settlement in several areas due to poorly compacted soils. At both facilities, catastrophic structural failure was on the horizon, but the prospect of halting operations to conduct a major remediation project was not an option. Analysis At the dairy processing facility in Kentucky, a decision had to be made regarding the preferred approach to solving the problem: high-

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