Hutchinson First Church of the Nazarene Construction Update

After a brief morning shower, work got underway, continuing to remove the topsoil down two feet.

8:00AM things started up again. The remaining asphalt was removed, and then the rocks under the asphalt had to be removed. This took a bobcat a long time, scraping and scraping until all the rock was gone and nothing but dirt remained. The back hoe quickly pulled up the existing sidewalk concrete and loaded it into the dump truck. Mike Dierking, our on-site supervisor from Hutton Construction (and a very nice guy) cut the sidewalk away from the existing building. An old water line was discovered in the berm next to the retaining wall, and it was determined that it was abandoned. It wasn't. Thankfully, after having to turn off the water to the entire church for an hour, Scott Meggers came to our rescue and capped the water line off. At 4:30PM, the back hoe started the process of removing approximately 2 feet of dirt from the existing footprint so it could be filled with the “low volume change soil” (LVCS).

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At 7:00AM construction officially started with the unloading of a back hoe. Then it sat. And sat. Finally, 5 hours later (at 2:00PM), the back hoe started pulling up the asphalt where the new building will be built. Unfortunately, it would take ten minutes to fill the dump truck with the broken-up asphalt, and then 45 minutes for the truck to return. Total work: 4 dump trucks filled and hauled off.