This project featured construction of an earthen fill levee to protect the facilities at the Selma Farm resort that were damaged in the 1993 and 1995 floods, and nearly damaged again in the spring of 2002. SCI performed the geotechnical exploration, material testing, slope stability calculations, settlement and pore pressure analysis, and other related geotechnical engineering work during the summer of 2003.

SCI also facilitated the permitting of the project with the Corps of Engineers and other agencies through our Natural Resource Services Group and provided construction observation and testing services for the construction of the levee. Due to material availability, shale overburden from a nearby quarry was used to construct the one-half-mile-long, 25-foot-tall levee.

Cultural Resource services involved a survey of approximately 15 acres for the construction of the levee to protect a set of buildings from the flooding of Selma Hollow Creek, which flows into the Mississippi River. A section of the creek will be rerouted to accommodate building of the levee. Phase Two testing was also completed at a portion of the site by hand excavation to help define the density of artifacts and location of subsurface features.