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MTNClimber and EireChch, thank you for your responses and for your time.It is greatly appreciated.

MTNClimber- thank you for your response. I will do that going forward. It sounds like I will be okay with the two walls that I poured concrete up to existing course even though the base is gravel?

Gravel had to be at least 6” on top in order to do that. If it wasn’t then we poured up to the next course. Wall when we put gravel over top of concrete was 3 ft so not a huge deal. Walls when we poured concrete, one was 7 ft with a driveway on top the other was 3 ft with a deck on top...

EireChch, that is what I have in all three scenarios. They are all gravel bases but utility lines were found directly running through each base. Which is why I am concerned. I took photos and documented everything. But I am frustrated because I got two pieces of advice and now I am coming to the...

The bottom of the gravel base is buried 26” on one of the walls and about 16” on two of the other walls. Both bases are 8-10” thick.

Does it alleviate the worry of differential settlement if the leveling course isn’t concrete and is a gravel base such as crusher run or 57 stone?

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I am a Landscape Contractor. I have worked with the same engineer on three different VersaLok SRW. Each of these walls have had Utility Lines that ran directly through the leveling pad portion of the wall. Each time I had the engineer come out and assess the situation. The first two times he...