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Old Posted Jan 16, 2007, 5:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Pegger5 View Post
Can a building be that high due to the underground water. Can they dig that deep?
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one end of the city the bed rock is 10feet down and the other end its 50feet or so down.. downtown is like 20feet or so........... from what i have been told by some contractors doing work at the shell terminal back in december
1ajs is right - the whole "living on a swamp" thing for WInnipeg is kind of an urban myth. There is bedrock under there - more than enough to build high.
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