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You Are an Engineer Tasked with Making a Mountain Roadway

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You are an engineer tasked with making a mountain roadway safer for passing cars. Although it was not discussed in Chapter 4, what would you emplace as some preventive measures that can be done to reduce or lessen the impact of mass wasting? Hint: Think about the controls and triggers of mass wasting..


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