July 25, 2013

Mudded grip to seawall and backfilled for sidewalk restoration. Put #57 stone for temporary use. Back filled pipe trench to subgrade level and compacted. Removed sidewalk on ROW and excavated for existing utilities. Installed one joint of grip to ROW. Backfilled and compacted. Testing lab pulled density tests on pipe backfill and subgrade with both passing.

Heavy rain as soon as we got to jobsite. Had to remove wet backfill placed yesterday and re-fill. 2" irrigation that blew apart was not caused by us. City inspector was on site and notified Toho water. It took them 2.5 hours to make the repair. We blocked the flow of water away from pipe trench but we still had a foot of sand washed into pipe. We had another heavy rain at 12 and we had to remove one lift of pipe backfill again and excavate some dry material from pond location. Opened sidewalk access at wall and closed access at ROW. Cleaned up all wet material from roadway and ROW. scheduled asphalt for open cut tomorrow and will re-open road to traffic.

Problems: 2" irrigation line blew apart, flooding ditch and washing a foot of sand in our pipe.


Rain storm delayed everything up to 50. Back to work and 2" irrigation service broke and flooded area again. Dried up and went back to work and rain again. Can't get ahead. Dug road crossing out 2 times before we could get it dry enough to get a density test off. Back fill up to sub grade and laid 1 more joint of pipe to get out of roadway. Open side walk and closed the other side. Went to shop to work on mixer.