Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Digging for the water



For the wind turbine project, first I dug the 4 1/2 foot hole to monitor the water table. I dug it 3 foot wide just in case we could have gone down 10 ft to use a pier (column) foundation base. I had to cut a lot of tree root to get there. Water started to pool at 4 1/2 feet so we decided that a mat (cube) foundation would be better given our shallow water table.

2 comments:

Gina said...

Hi Drew,

Rena told us all about your project. Keep up the good work, we enjoyed your blogs. Gina

sicudrew said...

Thanks for all the support. I was just wanting to get all the roots out of the way so that if we used a hole digger to go 10 feet I wouldn't have to worry about breaking the thing. But I did find our water table for this part of the year and it's at 4 and 1/2 feet.
Drew