You are working on a project that partially encompasses a marshy portion of a site. It is not a protected wetland, which means we can build a Wal$-$Mart and a drive$-$thru Chick$-$Fil$-$A there, and, thankfully, the environmental assessments did not show any contamination. But the engineer wants to build a permanent dewatering system for the project, which you think is unnecessary.

Which of the following would you include to suggest that the permanent dewatering solution is ill$-$advised $($multiple possible answers$)?$

Select $4$ correct answer$($s$)$

Question $11$ options:

Permanent dewatering drives up operational costs.

Permanent dewatering can increase operational complexity, since it requires maintaining consistent institutional knowledge about how it's meant to operate.

Permanent dewatering could have disastrous effects on the migration of contamination in the soil.

Permanent dewatering could negatively affect groundwater recharge.

Permanent dewatering would require far more regulatory complexity than something like a dig$-$and$-$dump solution to replace wet soils on the site.

Permanent dewatering can have unpredictable effects on foundation settlement if the soil types are heterogenous in a way that would allow differential rates of moisture transport.