On one of the real estate TV programs about flipping houses, misinformed fixer-uppers discover a tilting retaining wall. They erroneously explain that a high bank of dirt is pushing it over and dis… ...

A contractor dumped a mountain of dirt about two stories high and 100 yards long next to an interstate bridge over several years, so much that it may have moved the ground and caused the bridge to ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Wilmington contractor's company previously placed mounds of dirt alongside I-495 that now are part of a state investigation into how support piers on a bridge span shifted ...

DOVER, Del. (AP) – State transportation officials said Wednesday that they believe a contractor is responsible for dumping a massive mound of dirt suspected of shifting the ground underneath … ...

DOVER, Del. – A contractor dumped a mountain of dirt about two stories high and 100 yards long next to an interstate bridge over several years, so much that it may have moved the ground and ...

Thomas, who sells the dirt for fill, said he has worked in the area around the Port of Wilmington, just down the road from the bridge, for 41 years, running a paving company and other businesses.

In fact, water — not dirt — is what cracks and pushes over retaining walls. You can pile dirt behind a wall, and nothing will happen unless it gets wet because dirt rarely moves on its own.

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A contractor dumped a mountain of dirt about two stories high and 100 yards long next to an interstate bridge over several years, so much that it may have moved the ground and ...