2004-5 Pipe

 

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2004 07 27 Heavy Rain

2004 08 30 Tropical Storm Gaston

Day 1 - Our Sandbox Toys are Bigger than Yours

Sandbox toys, day 3

Sandbox toys, day 4

Sandbox toys, 2004 12 22

Sandbox Toys, 2004 12 28

2004 12 29, More Cutting

2004 12 30 Second Cut, Headwall Starts

2005 01 03 Sandbox Toys

2005 01 04 Pipe Install

2005 01 05 Pipe Install

2005 01 06 Pipe Install

2005 01 07 Pipe Install

2005 01 10 Pipe Install

2005 01 11 Pipe Install

2005 01 12 Pipe Install

2005 01 13 Pipe Install

2005 01 17 Pipe Install, Last Sections

2005 01 18 Riprap In, Old Pipe Out

2005 01 19 Riprap In, Headwall Dig, Snow

2005 01 21 Headwall Pour Starts

2005 01 24 Headwall Forms Work

2005 01 25 Headwall Forms Work

2005 01 26 Headwall Forms Work, Headwall Poured

2005 01 27, Riprap, Drive Repaired

2005 01 28, Headwall Finished

2005 04 02 It Works

2005 04 15, Last Riprap, Grading

2005 04 18 Grout, Topsoil, Grading

2005 04 19 Topsoil, Grading, Grass

 

 

2005 01 27, Riprap, Drive Repaired

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Not too much happened today. It was very cold last night, in the mid teens, and the concrete contractor wanted to let the headwall cure for at least 24 hours before removing the forms and finishing it. But some more small riprap was put in place around the wingwalls at the end of the new pipe. In addition, we got our drive back after three weeks! It's not the permanent version, but it's serviceable until we get the entire drive redone later this spring. We will wait to do that until the sprinkler systems are repaired and the phone and cable lines are put underground.

More riprap pushing:

Some rearranging of the dirt. It looks better in a neat pile and it might dry out a little more if it is spread out more. This pile of dirt is a lot smaller than it would have been for a similar job putting this much pipe. Almost all of the dirt that came out of the trench is going back in, even though the new pipe is much larger. This is because Gaston turned a large part of the yard into a nice deep canyon. The canyon was filled and regraded with dirt out of the trench. All that dirt that was in the canyon is out in the Kanawa canal or the James River. Maybe the Atlantic.

Much of what is in this pile will go in the last unfilled part of the new trench, around the headwall structure.

And we get our drive back! Oh Boy!

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