A report commissioned by NJDOT about the March 2021 collapse of a retaining wall on Interstate I-295 in Bellmawr, gave four causes and detailed two earlier events that foreshadowed the wall failure. Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The March 2021 collapse of an I-295 south retaining wall that supported a new roadway was foreshadowed by two events in 2016 and February 2019, according to a forensic engineering report commissioned by the state DOT to find the cause of the wall’s failure.
Preliminary DOT findings blamed excess groundwater on the site that was exacerbated by a March 24 rain storm, conditions which the report confirmed with several photos of ground water “weeping” through soil at the wall construction site, and a pool of ground water photographed during deconstruction of the collapsed wall by investigators.
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