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You might enjoy this; I remember recounting on here once before about a construction incident in Victorian-era Britain. London, I think.
In the incident, a dilapidated (even by 19th century standards) apartment building was demolished to make way for a new, slightly less horrific building. But when they tried to start construction, they realized that so much human waste had been dumped in the immediate vicinity of the building that the soil was basically just shit-mush, and they had to replace the literal ground before they could lay the new foundations.
"Enjoy", yes.