Things are not looking good in the attempts to repair the water main leak.
The oozy sandy soil is caving in on itself leaving a large cave in under about 5 feet of frozen ground. Precarious for the guys working down there too.
This is not official, but it may be that the leak won’t get fixed until the spring.
I tried to show the cave in under the frost with these pictures, and the conditions the guys are working under. The last photo shows the water bubbling up after the water was turned on again.
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Those guys are working in horrible conditions. Are they required to use a shoring frame to stop cave-ins if they go down deep?
I've been down in a few holes myself after working with the gas company, it's not nice at all!
Hope you get it fixed soon, it would be murder to have to wait until spring.
How are the pups?
Shoring frame, what’s that? in the local jargon. The only shoring frame used in the several phases of water sewer construction was in one small area no more than couple hundred yards long. Not that one was not needed in about 90% of the length, just none were available or not used if they were on site.
No, up here [summer conditions] when in sandy soil conditions you make a trench 3 or 4 times wider than you need and chamfer it both sides. Then you send the poor buggers down into it and hope for the best.
Makes for huge problems later with changes in ground water flows and creating boggy conditions where once it was fine.
Economics and location have a role to play, plus the bar is low on many health and safety issues in this Province, not just Labrador.
Officially the dig is over until summer, council has asked people to conserve water, there is a back up water supply at higher elevation, if need valves can be opened to flow water down to the main dam. I hope some one has checked to see if the back up is not frozen solid.
Pups are doing fine, eyes not opened yet but should be soon, have to think up names for them seeing as we will be keeping them until weaned.
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