Monday, June 29, 2009

Riprap!!

We finally got the riprap project finished. It took a couple months to finally get it done (that's what happens when you hesitate, and have to wait on personnel, and have to wait on nature) but we got it in. Here's how it went down: After I designed the channel, we got it cut and dressed by the end of May.

Here's the dozer starting the dressing.

And the grader making it look pretty.


The roller finished the job till we had this nice looking channel


This would have been great and all, but as mentioned in the previous post, the heavens opened up and it rained, and rained, and rained!! It rained so much that it turned my nice channel into a slot canyon.




Well, a month later after going through the wettest June in who knows how long, we re-cut the channel and re-dressed it. The operators here are really talented and did a great job. After they made and dressed the channel again, we got the membrane in. We used some of the leftover geonet that we use when lining our cells.


We then started placing the riprap



We dressed it and made it look awesome!



Isn't it beautiful?









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