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Project Summary
Micropile Slide Stabilization
Blue Trail Slide
Alpine, Wyoming

H
ighway 26-89 is a heavily traveled thoroughfare, Design of Stabilized System
carrying tourists year-round to many of Wyomings The slope above the roadway was determined to have suffi-
scenic attractions, including Grand Teton and cient natural stability. However, immediately downhill of the
Yellowstone National Parks. Just southwest of Jackson roadway, a 300-ft wide unstable soil mass was identified
Hole, the highway parallels the Snake River Canyon that extended to the river below. Soils consisted of up to
through what is locally known as the Blue Trail area. Since 75 ft of primarily granular, bouldery colluvium, deposited
its construction in the 1950s, this stretch of US 89 has
required continual maintenance because of frequent land-
slides. Finally, a permanent solution to prevent further slides
was incorporated into Wyoming DOTs extensive Snake
River Canyon highway reconstruction program.

Selection of Stabilization Technique


Several alternatives were considered to remediate the failing
slope, including bridging the slide path. Ultimately,
Micropile Slide Stabilization (MS3) technology was selected
to create an integral, stabilized ground reinforcement system
capable of resisting the driving forces in the slope that were
causing the instability. This technology has proven to be
both technically successful and cost-effective. An additional
advantage for this area of natural beauty is that the con-
structed system is underground and therefore does not have
a detrimental visual impact on the environment.

Top: Construction of MS3 Owner


walls provided a permanent Wyoming Department of
solution to slope instability. Transportation
Above: Cap beam under Cheyenne, Wyoming
construction.
Engineer
Left: Cross section showing DAppolonia
MS3 walls. Monroeville, Pennsylvania
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Project Summary
Blue Trail Slide, continued

nating a minimum of 23 ft in bedrock. Where boulder


obstructions were significant, a down-the-hole hammer was
substituted. The micropile was then installed in the drilled
hole and tremie-grouted in place. A total of 478 micropiles
were installed for the project, with lengths ranging from 45-
110 ft. Double-corrosion protection, multi-strand rock
anchors were spaced equidistantly along each cap beam. For
the upper wall, 10-strand, 350 kip capacity anchors were
used. For the lower wall, higher design loadings required the
use of 18-strand anchors.
Completed block retaining wall above stabilized slope.
Following completion of the MS3 walls, a mechanically sta-
by gravity mass movement on a 1.5:1 slope. Beneath this bilized wall was also constructed. This will allow widening
was mixed, sedimentary sequence bedrock. Melting snow of the roadway through the landslide zone as part of
raised the water table annually, further decreasing the stabil- WYDOTs highway reconstruction program.
ity of the slope.
Long Term
To achieve the designed factor of safety against sliding of
Extensive slope instrumentation includes strain gages, incli-
1.3, two MS3 walls were installed, extending to the esti-
nometers, load cells and piezometers. Over a two-year
mated horizontal limits of the unstable mass and focusing on
period, data will be collected and evaluated monthly by the
predicted shear zones. Each wall consisted of a double-row
University of Wyoming at Laramie, allowing WYDOT to
array of fully-grouted, 4-inch diameter steel, rock-socketed
assess the effectiveness of the repair. The site has experi-
micropiles, acting in both tension and compression, tied into
enced two major earthquakes since completion of the MS3
a concrete cap beam. Because of the massive driving forces,
system in 1997. The instrumentation has shown only negli-
rock anchors were also incorporated into the design to pro-
gible movements.
vide additional resistance. The completed stabilization sys-
tem, extending through the failure plane, effectively
stitched the soil mass to the underlying stable material.
Hayward Baker Locations
Atlanta Greensboro New York City Syracuse
770-442-1801 336-668-0884 201-489-1700 315-834-6603
Baltimore Houston Providence Tampa
MS3 Wall Construction 410-551-1980 281-668-1870 401-334-2565 813-884-3441
Chicago Knoxville San Diego Vancouver
Work was accomplished from temporary benches cut into 630-339-4300 865-583-8212 760-839-2870 604-294-4845
the slope. For each wall a heavily reinforced, 4,000 psi con- Dallas/Fort Worth Los Angeles San Francisco HB Subsidiary:
817-753-7000 805-933-1331 925-825-5056 Craig Olden, Inc.
crete capping beam was constructed, with micropile loca- Denver Minneapolis Seattle 800-422-4667
303-469-1136 952-851-5500 206-223-1732
tions split-spaced at net 15-inch intervals along the beam
Fort Lauderdale Nashville St. Louis
length. Typically, a hard faced, tricone roller bit was used to 954-977-8117 615-883-6445 314-802-2920

advance a drill string through the beam and soil mass, termi- Hayward Baker Inc. 2009
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