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WASHINGTON, <A*i — Perma
frost has become the scare word
for United State* military engin
eers in central Alaska. They knew
very little about it until they be
g,tri to do heavy building In the
area* of I^add and Elelson Fields,
near Fairbanks, in the last war.
Now they have learned that
permafrost must be a major con
sideration In planning any con
| strut Mon in that region. Perma
frost is ground that is frozen the
year around. If you try to build
on it, It thaws and becomes oozy
as quicksand.
ft. Is generally covered with low,
thick, mossy vegetation, which In
sulates it against summer heat.
When you scrape off the surface
cover It begins to melt. It goes
two to 100 feet deep, averages 15
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Miss Traubel had said that the
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feet. Much of it is a fine silt.
When attempts have been made
to build on it, the buildings set
tled and tilted. Runways for air
planes or heavy duty roads built
on permafrost usually sink, crack,
or heave—unless special precau
tions are taken.
The Army Corps of Engineers
and others who have worked in
the central area of Alaska—An
chorage and areas to the south
are not affected by permafrost—
have found that the best thing is
to find a location where there is
little or no permafrost. It comes
in patches—some deep, some thin;
and in some places it does not ex- j
1st.
Where' it becomes necessary to
build over permafrost, dee.'p exca
vations have been fecund to be the,*
be*st. solution. A very large area
| uneler and around the- building
1 site is scooped out; then all but j
the* basement space is filler! in ■
with coarse material, such as,
gravel.
Contractors for the Corps of En- I
ginfers recently excavated for a
typical row of eight houses. Only i
1,120 cubic yards of earth would I
have had to he moved for the ex
cavation for the basements in the!
States, at a cost of about $1 a
yard. Hut for those houses in
Alaska 0,220 cubic yards of per
mafrost had to be dug out, then
1 5,100 cubic yards of gravel had to
be back-filled. The total cost of |
the operation was $30,150, as com
pared to a cost of $1,120 in the |
States.
When building u heavy duty
road in the States, engineers nor-1
mnlly excavate for 2Vi feet before
laying the roudtjed. In silty per- j
mafrost, the excavation for such i
l a road normally is 9.7 feet deep.
Some attempts have been made1
I to put up buildings on pilings iri
the permafrost. But often the
piles have heaved up and tilted
the house as the deep ice froze
around them.
The engineers are now trying to
work out a new technique for
building small homes in the Ladd
and Kiel son areas. They would :
Scrape off the surface vegetation
and lay a layer of gravel on the
| top soil, about 18 to 36 inches'
deep. On top of it they would lay I
concrete slabs to form the foun-1
dntion for basementless houses..
The gravel, they believe will act
as insulation and prevent the per
mafrost from melting.
Another problem is laying sew- j
ers and water lines in the perma
frost. They freeze up and twist.
To get around this the engineers
build underground tunnels of con
note, called "utilidors,” through
which the water, heat and other
utility pipes and lines are run.
The heated pipes keep the water
from freezing and keep the utili
dors warm.
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