06/26/2021
Another scorcher ☀️ today, summer is upon us as well as Gatorade coolers and running through multiple 👕 😥 in one day.
Since these lots don’t have much room to work with, we start from the back and work our way forward. Once we start excavation and have massive trenches all over the place, there’s nowhere to work, so we start with the seepage tanks in the backyard and work our way forward. Now that we got the new sewer connection out of the way, nicely nestled under the curb, we can get started on the actual project. While the property is still relatively flat and drivable for a dump truck to pull into, we start with the seepage tanks all the way in the rear of the property so once they’re installed and back filled they’re out of sight, out of mind.
The town engineer specified (6) .inc Recharger 330 XLHD chambers (swipe ➡️). If you’re like most of the pedestrians that stopped in their tracks this morning to ask what we’re doing, these are water retention tanks that will store all the storm water off the gutters and driveways and will all drain into these tanks. Once you encapsulate those tanks with the proper amount of gravel, it asks as a humongous underground bottomless tub and over the course of time that water will percolate it’s way through the earth. Nobody will know it’s even there. In all towns, the new development is not allowed to have their new stormwater runoff drain into the street or catch basins because the outdated pipe infrastructure can’t handle the increased capacity so you need to retain in within the confines of your lot limits so this is the solution. Next time you see these random blue or yellow tanks, you’ll know what they are 🤔!
This post is not only meant to be educational but also to reinforce the point of ‘this 💩 ain’t cheap’ lol, we haven’t even put an ounce of concrete or one 2x4 on the job and the infrastructure costs are starting. The end user won’t even know this is there or that they have squeaky clean new pipes going to the sewer main, but this all adds to the bottom line. It ain’t all quartz and fridges, it all starts here ⛰.