Friday, June 02, 2006
Compacting the existing ground resumed, and the dump trucks with the low volume change soil (LVCS) started arriving at 9:00AM. Kenny's Electric came out and rewired the electrical line to the lift station (what pumps the "finished" water from the church into the city's sewer lines). Terracon, an engineering firm making sure the foundation of the building is adequate, arrived and found two large sections (each about the size of a semi truck trailer) that were not firm enough to meet their specs. So the bulldozers and back hoe had to dig down about four feet and replace it with trucked in LVCS. In the process, around 2:45, the back hoe found the existing sewer line out to the lift station. Well, at least it still had power, but now the lift station had nothing to lift! By 4:30 the plumbers had us back in business. At 7:00PM, both holes were filled with new dirt, and 29 dump truck loads of LVCS had been spread and compacted.
