Comments on: San Antonio officials paid scant attention to towering retaining walls http://www.johntedesco.net/blog/2010/02/03/san-antonio-officials-paid-scant-attention-to-towering-retaining-walls/ Investigative Reporter for the San Antonio Express-News Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Gibbonshttp://www.johntedesco.net/blog/2010/02/03/san-antonio-officials-paid-scant-attention-to-towering-retaining-walls/#comment-62 John Gibbons Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:16:41 +0000 http://johntedesco.net/blog/?p=4595#comment-62 Golly, all those hard surfaces that are now coming down can be replaced and properly rebuilt with more carbon producing concrete block! Adding more heat sinks and reflective surfaces to the planet.Or...........use a Deltalok USA earthen building block utilizing the same MSE, Mechanically Stabilized Earth, methods and reduce the carbon footprint by 97% over concrete block. Vegetate the wall with native plants and create beautiful permanent greenscapes! Golly, all those hard surfaces that are now coming down can be replaced and properly rebuilt with more carbon producing concrete block! Adding more heat sinks and reflective surfaces to the planet.

Or………..use a Deltalok USA earthen building block utilizing the same MSE, Mechanically Stabilized Earth, methods and reduce the carbon footprint by 97% over concrete block. Vegetate the wall with native plants and create beautiful permanent greenscapes!

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