The Slurry Wall at the 9-11 Museum (2)
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When terrorists crashed two airliners full of jet fuel into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, the resulting inferno, coupled with structural damage, caused what were then New York City's tallest skyscrapers to collapse and disintegrate into a mound of smoking rubble. But amazingly, after the gray dust settled and engineers were able to probe the wreckage, they discovered that a critical part of the WTC complex had somehow survived. The slurry wall -- a 3-foot-thick, below-ground, concrete structure surrounding the World Trade Center, designed to keep its basement levels from being flooded by the Hudson River -- remained in place. Had this wall collapsed, the entire New York subway system might have flooded, and the loss of life could have been exponentially worse.
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The Slurry Wall, The National September 11 Memorial Museum, National September 11 Memorial Museum, National September 11 Memorial, World Trade Center, Rebuilding the World Trade Center Site, 911, September 11 2001, National September 11, Museum, Terror Attack, Attack, New York City, Manhattan, NYC, New York, NY, New York State, NYS, The Empire State, Financial Center, Never Forget
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