2004-5 Pipe

2005 01 25 Headwall Forms Work

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This morning someone new from the general contractor turned up to look over the site. He is the one running the crew that will finish the riprap and then do grading and "finish" work on the site. He said that he was just out to look and that probably nothing would happen again today. It was cold early in the morning, but I was disappointed to hear this since the weather forecast was pretty good, calling for highs in the 40s with sun.

I called the general contractor to ask what was up and got more or less the same story. However, about an hour later the concrete sub had three people out to strip the forms from the headwall base. After that was done they started working on the actual headwall forms. An hour or so later a couple more workers turned up, and by early afternoon there were 11 people working.

The stream was diverted over the work again.

And the headwall base forms were stripped off. In this next shot you can see one of the little blue submersible pumps that is keeping out what little of the stream isn't flowing in the black pipe.

Followed by a lot of work on the actual walls of the structure.

You can see this is going to be big, about 12 feet wide and 6 feet high. The vertical sidewalls will taper down. The purpose of this structure is to collect water and ram it into the pipe, enabling it to be completely filled if we ever have another Gaston like deluge. If water simply flowed into the 60" pipe it would not fill.

Rebar added .. in this next shot you can see the supervisor of this crew. He's the one in the blue sweatshirt with his left hand in the air. All of these guys are working hard all the time, and he knows what they are all doing and is constantly giving orders and talking and joking. This is a really well run group.

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The whole scene ..

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The entire time there were 3 or 4 people in the street making pieces of the forms.

At this point I had to take the dog to the dog park to ram around in the gunk there, chasing the few other dogs and making an incredible muddy mess of himself.

The sunset was nice.

I came back from the dog park at about 5:50, and the concrete sub was just leaving. They worked until about 5:30 today. Usually everyone is gone by 4:30.

Tomorrow the headwall forms should be complete, the concrete should be poured, and the rest of the riprap should be put in.

On Thursday the headwall forms ought to be stripped off, the headwall filled in, riprap put in place where it needs to be, and cleanup should start.

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