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A 5-ton weight crashes into the ground just outside Nephi, Utah, where a BYU professor was testing various methods for treating collapsible soils. A common problem in the Southwest, collapsible soils can cause severe damage to structures when the rains fall and the flood come.
Photo by Kyle Rollins
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