Concrete Poured

Today is another one of my photo essays on the new water main work on our street. Today’s topic, our ditch is finally being repaved.

As you look at the pictures, you will notice there are footprints on the concrete. When Betsy left the house at 12:23 there was a backhoe in the ditch digging it down and shaping it. Between then and when the boy got home from school around 3:30, they dug the ditch down to the level of the culvert pipe and lined it with concrete, and were puttering around with other things.  By the time Betsy got home at 5:08, someone had walked in the concrete and put the footprints in it — we don’t know who.

The concrete itself looks fine, but if you look at the depth on the photos, you will notice that the ground level is below the concrete on both sides for long stretches.  The water isn’t going to run down the concrete, but beside it. They also didn’t clean the dirt out of the culvert pipe itself. I’ll have to take a shovel and do that once I know they are clear and the concrete is set enough.

We don’t know if they are finished yet or not, but we expect something more is still to be done before they are complete. If there are further changes, there will be further blog updates on this topic.