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washers. Welk. who owns property where the fallen tower was standing, told the Rappahannock News that he and his wife frequently visit their land to walk the acreage and discuss site and design of the home they plan to build there. According to Welk. they make the trip from Fauquier to their lot on Route 647 once or twice a week.
No Nuts Or Washers
Welk said on Friday that he has often noticed and commented on the failure of construction crews to anchor towers. He said that the last time he'd seen the fallen tower erect, washers and nuts were screwed onto only one of the four legs. In addition, he reported that nuts, bolts, and washers were scattered throughout the weeds around each of the towers. Welk discounted Carmack's claim that washers and nuts found 20 to 25 feet from the fallen tower had been tossed there by vandals and were the same washers and nuts that had held one-and-a-quarter inch bolts six feet into the concrete bases.
“The two towers close to the road have never been bolted down since I've seen them.'' maintained Welk, adding that he'd been to the site once or twice a week during the entire construction period. He added that the legs of the tower closest to the road had a few nuts on its bolts but that these nuts “weren't even screwed down" beyond a few twists by hand.
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