Joel de Jong

I am literally crying laughing.

No more witnesses. Ms Nauman requested to do a written closing brief instead of doing an oral closing today. Due October 28 by 5pm. Hearing is closed #cheasthearing

DH: "We've done more geotechnical work than 90% of the bridge projects I've been involved with. There is no trail project anywhere that I'm familiar with that has done this amount of geotechnical work. We've run this project into the ground, geotechnically." #cheastyhearing

DH: "This proposal will not cause slope instability. #cheastyhearing

DH: "Construction of the trail will not negatively affect the slope." #cheastyhearing

DH: "Cheasty is an active slope. However, It's shallow due to things like rainwater. All deep seated slope movements in Cheasty have been caused by contractors making deeper digs (beyond 10 feet deep) #cheastyhearing

DH: "Cheasty is unique geometrically like all slopes, not geologically." #cheastyhearing

DH: "We used the geological map, looked at 30ft deep borings, and various other reports like Rainier Vista, and truthed those to the soil in the field. Everyone involved agreed that there was no added benefit to doing more deep geotechnical borings." #cheastyhearing

DH: We modeled shaking, taking into account that we were on the Seattle fault zone and the parameters used to emulate the earthquake. #cheastyhearing

Donald Huling swearing in. Employed by HWA Geoscience. VP and principal geotechnical engineer. #cheastyhearing

Ms Nauman questioning environmental experts, "Could there be an issue of sediment coming off the trail down into the wetland?" Answer: The design is to disperse storm water continuously off the trail to keep the natural condition of where water would go. #cheastyhearing

environmental expert: "historical aerial photo records since 1936 show that there has been no deep seated sliding in the area." #cheastyhearing

the bike path creates no greater hazard for earthquakes or liquifaction #cheastyhearing

talking about glacial consolidation of the soil at Cheasty... #cheastyhearing

Environmental consultants giving testimony. relied on previous borings done by City of Seattle and did shallow tests do to the nature of shallow trail impact. #cheastyhearing

Parks will only put in split rail fence if people go off trail and negatively impact the wetlands #cheastyhearing

Parks is using Louis Park as a Beacon Hill example of successful, recent steep slope trails that are open #cheastyhearing

Parks submitted examples of steep slope trails in other Seattle Parks #cheastyhearing

Trails will be built by volunteers mostly by hand #cheastyhearing

Parks says there will be no significant "earth impacts" with the proposed trail #cheastyhearing