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  • n  a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
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  • Cresco Concrete Products, LLC Introduces the Liteblok™ Jumbo
    Liteblok™ is a precision molded, interlocking, mortarless building block made from lightweight cellular concrete and composed of sand, cement and a network of tiny, discrete air pockets. Applications include homes, buildings, fences and retaining walls. (PRWeb June 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/CrescoConcrete/LiteblokJumbo/prweb10834083.htm
    June 14, 2013 - PRWeb
  • Boy asks City Council to save his home from erosion
    A 10-year-old boy from Carrollton, Texas, addressed his town's City Council to ask that it help save his home from erosion. CBS-Dallas reports that Nick Harmla spoke about how, due to a crumbling retaining wall, his family's backyard has been steadily washed away by rain into a nearby creek. His neighbors' properties have also been [...]
    June 12, 2013 - The Sideshow via Yahoo! News
  • Dump truck tilts bed, collides with cement retaining wall
    No one was injured Monday in a bizarre traffic accident on U.S. Highway 190 that destroyed four feet of cement retaining wall on the Clear Creek Road overpass.
    June 11, 2013 - Killeen Daily Herald

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