Painstaking demolition of 28 feet of wall becomes 150 foot collapse.
The contractor tasked with taking down a 28-foot piece of a pre-Civil War wall along the historic Kanawha Canal in Richmond, Virginia for a road project said the entire wall, including a piece on city property, inadvertently collapsed in the process, according to a statement from the company’s attorney.
“J.E. Liesfeld Contracting Inc. was to remove 28 lineal feet of brick from the existing wall. In the course of removing the 28 lineal feet of brick, apparently due to the age and condition of the wall, the entire wall collapsed,” says the statement issued by Bill Bayliss, an attorney with Williams Mullen who represents the Hanover County contractor.
Bayliss added that Liesfeld had been issued a city permit for the work.
“They were doing what they were supposed to do,” Bayliss said. “No one anticipated that the wall would collapse when they were doing this.”
However, Bayliss would not say who hired Liesfeld to perform the job.
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