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Introduction Ground remediation methods have been used for many years to improve ground conditions to enable development. Ground remediation has become increasingly common as industrialisation has caused rapid development of cities. Areas within cities, previously undeveloped due to adverse ground conditions, can now be remediated…

SUMMARY Queenstown, New Zealand, is a known seismically-active area. A major soil type overlying the flat lands in and around the city is the varved micaceous clayey silt / sandy silt laminated lake sediment overlying the schist bedrock. In-situ (boreholes, CPTu, sCPTu, DMT, Vs and…