And the main reason the FOB was in disrepair was because the ground beneath the base had eroded significantly. So while the buildings needed renovations, the construction crew also needed to figure out how to prevent the same problem from recurring. The operations manager of AK Aggregates and Concrete Supplies, who worked alongside the Ministry of National Defense, explained that the renovations were a challenge from the start, but they found the perfect method to prevent erosion.
Ray Olgaldez, Operations Manager, AK Aggregates and Concrete Supplies
"It was all water, folks, it was all water from the beginning. If any one of you could remember what the base used to look like, it would tell what it is now to what it used to look like. It was, of course, a challenge, one of the challenges that we faced, one of the materials that we used to stabilize to correct the erosion was far different than what we work with in the south it was all slush it was all muck that would take forever to dry to stabilize so we worked around that, we found ways, and we stabilized the island, and the Christmas break gave us a good time so we filled the island before Christmas leave it to stabilize during the Christmas break so when we came back we could've landed our construction equipment on the island, that's when the real work started. 11:23
"You would refer to it as a riprap type. We stabilized it with clay or whatever we could get in the immediate area but that wouldn't stand so we had the rocks as the riprap to support the clay."
"It was one of the more readily available and proven stability erosion control and it was accessible."
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