Stamford Hill Embankment

The works involved the stabilisation of an existing embankment – the worksite was 270m long, truncated at the southern boundary by St Ann’s Road Underbridge and to the north by the Tottenham & Hampstead line rail Underbridge.  The embankment is up to 5m high and consists of re-worked London clay which needed to be stabilised.  The works included for the removal of the existing embankment vegetation and topsoil.  Approximately 534 Ishbeck 40/20 soil nails were installed up to a maximum length of 14m over the area of the embankment.  The embankment was then dressed with rabbit/badger netting.  A new cess path was constructed and supported by a piled retaining wall which consisted of Groudamat piles up to a depth of 4.0m at approximately 1.2m spacings along the length of the cess.