Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Repair done 4/6/07

This repair was made in April of 07. It was a result of the waterline being loosened at the upper field as the lines were pulled apart somehow (possibly when the edges of the upper field eroded years previously). You can tell here where we dug up the road, we made some cuts with the concrete saw first to try to make it clean. On the other side of the main road where Nate's bucket was we dug as closely as we could to the road to find the leak and realized it went under the road somewhere so we came across to cap it and will run a line to the upper field from the Cabin 5 line.

This is a view of the cap put on. The repair was just past on the corner where the barn road met the main entry road on the cabin side... where there should be a patch you can see. Essentially we simply cut the line a short distance past where the T going across the road was and capped it. This seemed to work because when we turned the line on the leakage didn't continue so must have been underneath the main entry road.
Across the road there is the top of a 4x4 post to the left of that bucket. That is where the stub from the T comes out underneath the road... hence the T should be just less than a yard from where this cap is. We left the existing line going under the road but there must be a leak in it somewhere. We placed a block behind the cap and poured 2 bags of sacrete before burrying it, it wasn't any more than 2 feet deep.

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