Tower’s lean checked
NZPA-AP Pisa The Leaning Tower is having a checkup to see if anything more can be done to keep it from falling. Workers have begun the survey, which includes taking samples of material from the twelfth century tower and the sub-soil on which it stands at its precarious angle, 5.1 m off the perpendicular. The Italian news agency, A.G.1., also said yesterday that planners wanted to know the physical-chemical characteristics of the walls, foundation and soil before deciding if any serious work was needed.
In 1984, the tower registered its lowest tilt record in recent years, according to the group that maintains the landmark. The 55-metre-high marble tower increased its lean only 0.48 mm, down from 1.28 mm in 1983.
The Italian government in 1983 assigned six university professors to the task of coming up with a plan to prevent the tower from falling over some day and approved what was then worth $11.5 million for the job.
Shortly after its construction began in 1173 the tower began leaning because the ground beneath it sifted.
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