GREENSBORO, N.C. — What do engineering experts think about the damage to Western North Carolina’s infrastructure like the unearthed water plant pipes Greensboro Water Resources crews are working on in Buncombe County or the roads that had been eaten out from underneath?
North Carolina A&T’s new Chancellor is a civil engineer and risk engineering expert. Dr. James L. Martin II told me today that the damage we’re seeing is not because the construction of our roads or water plants was bad or inadequate.
“We couldn’t plan this. This is unchartered territory,” said Martin. He said the damage reminded him of the tsunami in Japan…