Thursday, January 30, 2020

Turkey Creek Ph 1 - Flat Creek (Line Work)

7:30am- Rock is now broke out and laying of pipe will resume today. 



8:35am- 1st joint of the day laid in place, as the excavator digs for 2nd joint. 

9:45am- 3rd joint is in. Crew will plug pipe and cover with gravel and then begin backfill for rest of the day.  60’ total laid for today of SDR21, 12”. 

11:20am- Part of the Crew going back and setting lids and wrapping manholes now. 

12:50pm- Another manhole now wrapped. 



1:50pm- manhole getting dug up due to it being backfilled before wrapping was installed. 

2:30pm- another is now wrapped. 

3:20pm- ...and another is dug up for wrapping. 

4:30pm- now fixed. 

5:15pm- last one is now fixed. 














Turkey Creek Ph 1 - RL Persons (L.S.)


Back to breaking rock and pumping water. Today will be a short day for the crew. They will be leaving site around 11:30am. 



11:30am- Crew is headed back home for the weekend. 














Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Turkey Creek Ph 1 - Flat Creek (Line Work)


7:00am- Work will resume on laying 12” Sdr21 with the wintery mix falling this morning. 

8:00am- 2nd joint of pipe now laid in place. 

8:30am- Jimmy has left the job site sick as Jack takes over laying pipe. 3rd joint now for the day. 

9:45am- Pipe laying still going good!

11:20am- 7th joint of pipe now laid as everything is going good. 

1:15pm- 10 joints, or 200’ now laid in place. Backfill of this ditch also taking place. 



2:20pm- 12th joint now laid. Backfill area is now getting smoothed up with some dozer work. 



3:45pm- 14th joint laid.

4:25pm- Digging has stopped. Jack hammer is needed due to ditch becoming to narrow. 280’ of SDR21 is laid today. 





 


 







Turkey Creek Ph 1 - RL Persons (L.S.)


6:35am- Light rain mix falling as crew continues to break rock this AM. No crew here to tie rebar due to weather at this time. 

12:00pm- Hole is getting more “square” now as the rock breaking continues. 



Crew onsite also tying up more rebar. 



5:15pm- still breaking rock. 

A wash-out area was also installed today for the concrete trucks when that all starts. 








Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Turkey Creek Ph 1- Flat Creek (Line Work)


8:06am- Starting to excavate heading South out of MH-35 towards MH-36



8:20am- Setting first stick of 12” SDR 35 pipe for the day
8:51am- Continue to excavate South out of MH-35

9:10am- Setting several more sticks of SDR35 pipe



10:48am- Moving towards MH-36 and setting SDR 35 pipe. 112’ so far this morning.



11:55am- 11th joint now being laid for the day so far. 

12:55am- grading out for MH A36. 

Shooting flow line for grade. Its good!

Pipe now installed for a footage of 164.83’ of 12” sdr35 so far today, making the run from MH A34 to A35 at 241.33’ total distance. 

Line is also lamped back to MH A34 from A35. 

2:10pm- flow line across MH A36 is virtually flat. Sdr 21 pipe is a little bigger O.D. than the sdr35 pipe. Thus creating a “flat” flowline. 

2:20pm- 1st joint of sdr21 now laid in place, upstream of MH A36. SDR21 pipe is 20’-6” per joint; pipe laid in place is 20’. 

Backfill also taking place at this time back towards MH A35. 

3:30pm- SDR21 pipe is progressing nicely. 

5:00pm- Crew has laid 7 joints, 140’ of SDR21 upstream of MH A36. 
Total footage for today 304.83’. 

Entrance road to substation is now open as well.