Progress - of sorts

After digging the big trench in the middle of the road, the construction crew left us alone for a while - until it was time to dig the lateral trenches from the big pipe to the yard, where the actual tap will be located. Here's our friendly neighborhood backhoe operator cutting through our sprinkler system and digging up our yard. What you can't see is that there is a trench between the treads that is deep enough to require 20-foot ladders to get down to the bottom.


Digging the lateral trenches left the street in rather a mess; not only was it rough to drive over the trenches, every car (or dump truck) that passed stirred up a cloud of dust! Finally, this past week they came back and paved all the trenches and now the street is nice to drive on once again. Here's the "After" picture, with everything filled in and covered over. They even repaired the sprinkler!


Now all that's left is for them to repair the curb. And then they come back and scrape ALL the asphalt off the street and repave the entire street. Can't wait for that!