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which_chick) wrote2008-03-06 07:55 am
which_chick) wrote2008-03-06 07:55 am
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Today is happy dig-up-the-water-day with Lingenfelter. He should be here between 8 and 9 this morning. Mr. Ted has called me to let me know that he is coming up this weekend. Again. It would be really nice if there were working water at his house. Really nice. I'm sure he's tired of having no water. Tomorrow is eye doctor guy with grandma. Then it's the weekend, for which I will be supremely thankful. It's been a week, and no lie.
We got a lot of rain the other night. A lot. The culvert at Angevine's filled up with sediment and water ran all over the road, making big ditches. Terry dug out the culvert so that it would drain and sort of mushed dirt back in the worst of the ditches. It'll do for now. The culvert at Angevine's has been an ongoing source of unhappiness for a while now. Water runs over/down the road there in nearly every bad storm and it's just not an ideal situation.
Water also ate away at the road in the dip between the Ray's Hill tunnel and the part that never melts out and overtopped at the trout stream by the football field. Neither of those should come as news and both will need some work when the world isn't mudluscious and puddle-wonderful. It was a hell of a lot of rain.
I cleaned out the bad sections of ditch and checked the other culverts. Yuvola's is fine, the one creek between Howie's and Landis/Long's filled up but it ran along the ditch to the other one and (narrowly) missed running over the road. That could use a better culvert, not the creek back of my house but the next one down towards Howie's. Pity it's so freaking deep in the road -- I expect that's why we haven't replaced it yet. Also, it's a problem about once a year.
There was water going over the road (in a slow, non-eroding way) on the other side, but it wasn't very serious. It'll be gone today. The other side of the road (Terry, mostly) would like some better culverts over there. The man's got a backhoe -- I don't see what is holding him back from making it so. We might put that on the to-do list for springtime. It's a simple enough thing to make him happy.
We got a lot of rain the other night. A lot. The culvert at Angevine's filled up with sediment and water ran all over the road, making big ditches. Terry dug out the culvert so that it would drain and sort of mushed dirt back in the worst of the ditches. It'll do for now. The culvert at Angevine's has been an ongoing source of unhappiness for a while now. Water runs over/down the road there in nearly every bad storm and it's just not an ideal situation.
Water also ate away at the road in the dip between the Ray's Hill tunnel and the part that never melts out and overtopped at the trout stream by the football field. Neither of those should come as news and both will need some work when the world isn't mudluscious and puddle-wonderful. It was a hell of a lot of rain.
I cleaned out the bad sections of ditch and checked the other culverts. Yuvola's is fine, the one creek between Howie's and Landis/Long's filled up but it ran along the ditch to the other one and (narrowly) missed running over the road. That could use a better culvert, not the creek back of my house but the next one down towards Howie's. Pity it's so freaking deep in the road -- I expect that's why we haven't replaced it yet. Also, it's a problem about once a year.
There was water going over the road (in a slow, non-eroding way) on the other side, but it wasn't very serious. It'll be gone today. The other side of the road (Terry, mostly) would like some better culverts over there. The man's got a backhoe -- I don't see what is holding him back from making it so. We might put that on the to-do list for springtime. It's a simple enough thing to make him happy.
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Our culvert is very full. The artesian spring at the top of the hill is going full time!