Do You See What Glen Sees? (Vol. 13)

First, the answer to Vol. 12 (last week).

Great answers! It seems like everyone was on the same page with this one! It was some type of blemish on the woven coated, both the large area to the left of the utility knife and the small area below the knife.

In this case, the manufacturer chose to cut out the area containing both of them. The large one sure appeared to have been a bug, but I don’t recall the manufacturer ever confirming that with me. I believe the smaller one was some type of blister in the coating which some of you also suggested. There were only one or two more small blemishes elsewhere on the project (2-acres).

As was mentioned, it is important to inspect for others and as necessary, repair in accordance with the manufacturer’s guidance. If you start finding a lot of blemishes on any material, immediate discussions should take place with an engineer about whether or not to allow the panel or portions thereof to stay and sometimes guidance is required from the manufacturer. In this case, the manufacturer was already on site because of the nature of the project.

In these blog posts, Do You See What Glen Sees, I will present a photograph or short video related to earthwork or geosynthetics construction and have you identify the significance of what you’re seeing.

It could be things being done correctly or incorrectly. Primarily, these will be things that impact quality.

In addition to my blog, I’ll post this content on X and LinkedIn. You can post your response on one of those two.

I’ll give you my thoughts on each photo or video when I post the next installment.

Do you see what I see?  Or did you find something I missed?  I’m excited to find out!