exposed footing due to incorrect soil levels.

[Eduardo V]

¡Hello everyone!
I currently have an issue with some perimeter wall isolated footing. At first, we expected that the footings would be underground aproximately 60 cm. That changed when, after heavy rains, the terrain changed drastically. Due to bad communication with field, we didn't updated the footing level. Now the footing is exposed and i'm worried that the rain could further remove material and provoque a "bluetooth footing".
I'm anexing some photos of the current state of the construction and the original plans.


With some quick calcs, technically the footing resists sliding and overtune (only wind considered) even without soil above the footing, but i'm sure all of that only can happen if rain water is not messing with the soil below my footing.

Do i have to concentrate on protecting the slope? Would extra weight over the footing help?
Does anyone have a tip to fix this issue? I would greatly appreciate some guidence!

 

[jhnblgr]

Global stability comes to mind. However I would never trust that wall built of block.

 

[MegaStructures]

I don't see what is providing lateral stability to the CMU wall, am I missing something? How is the soil from the slope above not going to push over the CMU?

 

[SWComposites]

Do i have to concentrate on protecting the slope?

This is probably the critical thing to do, both for the structure and for worker safety.

 

[phamENG]

If rain washed away the slope, then you have bigger issues. You need to restore that slope, and protect it.

 

[gte447f]

Yikes.

 

[Greenalleycat]

What the heck is this construction

 

[milkshakelake]

Can you backfill and level out that slope a lot and add rip rap to protect it and do a lot of other things? I'm asking nicely, but like, you have to do it. This is a disaster in the making.

 

[MegaStructures]

So... the CMU wall is meant to support the soil? I don't understand, this seems... dangerous

 

[dold]

So... the CMU wall is meant to support the soil? I don't understand, this seems... dangerous

I'm pretty sure this is just a "fence". Not a retaining wall. Hopefully.