Hutchinson First Church of the Nazarene Construction Update

Trying to make up for lost time, Rick's Dozer worked on Saturday, spreading out 33 more dump truck loads of LVCS.

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.

This morning at 4:30AM, God took care of watering the building. He accomplished (as usual) more in 30 minutes than man did all day yesterday in the form of 1.25 inches of rain. A lot of rain. Too much rain - if you are a building. Now all of that rain is being moved and pumped from the big mud puddle that was the building site yesterday. By 6:00PM it was dry enough to work with. Too late.

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There was a lot of activity today! Rick's Dozer finished removing the topsoil, getting it down low enough to start hauling in the the “low volume change soil” (LVCS). The crane that will start the auger cast pile drilling next week showed up today, and men started putting it together. A crew has cut off a part of the cement retaining wall from the berm where windows will be placed in the new building. They have started compacting the existing dirt, but unfortunately, it is too dry to compact. Water hoses have been brought in to help dampen the dry soil. I knew wheat needed water, but I never saw someone water a building.

Today's Picture Gallery (20 pictures)

Another fairly slow day. More dirt was removed and the underlying soil was compacted as much as possible.

Not much happened today - just a few loads of dirt hauled off. Sigh... I guess construction crews get holidays just like I do. :)