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Colonies of microbes that release by-products which can eat through steel are attacking the sheet piles.
Ports steel themselves for bugs life horror story: 19/10/2000 issue of the New Civil Engineer
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Lerwick harbour has 1.4 km of sheet pile walls: most have been attacked by "steel-eating bugs".

Concrete Proposals: 19/10/2000 issue of the New Civil Engineer

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