Boy, this watermain damage turned out to be a big deal! I could not believe all the trucks and heavy equipment the water company had on site to fix the damage. They had to close our street where it met Shore Road.
The big red arm on the upper right was a tank truck vacuum cleaner to pump water out of the deep hole that the excavator at left, dug. It was at least six feet to get to where they needed to be.
Because the hole was so deep they needed to put heavy wood planks around the hole to keep the soil under the road from collapsing into the hole because a worker needed to be down at the bottom to make the repair.
We can assume the workman in the hole is almost 6 feet tall and all we can see is his helmet.
Look at all the trucks lined up on the left side of the road in this photograph. And they needed to keep shore road open, so things were pretty crowded while the work was going on.
They worked past quitting time on the last day of their repairs, and then filling everything back in. All you can see here is the blacktop they covered all their digging with. If you click on this photo you can see smaller black patches on the road going back into the distance, where they had made other holes in order to repair the water main.
1 comment:
The photo that really shocked me is the workman in the hole with only his head showing. How scary!
Glad the work is done!
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