sewer line update - fiber optic line and power to tent village

 They guys had quite the day today, they managed to cut both the fiber optic lines for our internet for the park, and the power lines for Tent village. 

The fiber optic line is where the orange cone is in the pic below, and the power lines are in the foreground.

3Rivers came right out and put a splice in the line.  Look closely, the splice is a box on the outside of the ditch on the left.  There is a 2nd splice on the other side of the sewer ditch in the fiber ditch. It was interesting seeing how they welded the fibers that are color coded together. 

This pic is for an idea where the fiber optic line is.  The electricity line for Tent Village is up the ditch to the left.

The Electrician came by the next morning and spliced the electric wires for tent village.

sewer update, across the road

 Ok, it is starting to look like progress.  The farthest tree (were the mobile home is) in the pic is where we started, at the Sewer main for the City.

There are power lines going to spaces 1-6 about where the orange cone is at, and the guys have gotten past the natural gas line.

Great Sunset tonite at Choteau Mountain View RV Campground in Choteau Montana

 

Sewer update - finding Natural Gas line where it crosses the road

 The guys brought in a cool machine, it is basically a pressure washer to dig the hole and a large tank attached to a vacuum hose to suck it all up out of the hole.

Made a great hole to see the Natural gas line at the bottom, and maybe an old cable TV line at the top.

Bynum Montana Dinosaur Museum

Suzi, Joe, and Sara took a little drive over to check out the Dinosaur Museum.  

Babie Birdies Robin/ Killdeer

 We found a Killdeer nest in the middle of our field while mowing.  Ronnie has named her Kelley 'Kildeer' Kirkley.

She has 4 eggs in her nest.

She was not happy that I was looking at her nest, and was showing me her fake broken wing, when I moved she hopped right back on her nest.

I also checked on the Robins nest.  I think the first shot is mom, this

ut  second shot is an unhappy baby?

Sand Hill Cranes -- Eureka Lake Montana

 Heard the Sand hill Cranes were right by the road out at Eureka Lake where they often spend their summers, so Sarah and I headed over to check it out.  

We counted at least 15 of them

Sewer update still @ #7

Guys spent a ton of time hand digging around all the wires and pipes in site #7

There is a natural Gas line between the fence and the ditch through this area also.  

Things got bogged down with all the hand digging, once they got it backfilled the power went out on the RV next to the ditch, so the guys had to had dig around and find the problem, it was a previous splice that had the problem.

  We had the electrician come by and repair it.  They back filled it before I could get a pic.

Then, our contractor had an off the job injury, we hope he will have a speedy recovery, but in the mean time his Dad is going to take over and get our job done.  

We are hoping the hard part is done, this was the area of most concern, but when digging it is always an adventure.

 

Sewer line update @ #7

 4th of July slowed progress, but the guys are back at it.

Made it to site 7, but they had to do a lot of hand digging to get past water, sewer, and electric lines

Sewer line update @ #8

 Slow progress the last couple days.

The guys did a lot of hand digging due to electric lines and water lines in space 8.

But they have made it past space 8

In the pic below I am standing where there is a clean out for the sewer.  It is near where the 6" Y is located one side is concrete pipe to the main building the other is the new line we are putting in.

They will take a break for the 4th of July, then they will be back.

Boomer likes the nice pea gravel they are using to fill around the pipe.  

The pea gravel it will help keep the pipe from having holes rubbed into it from larger rocks, plus I am told it will protect the pipe from having the large RV's crushing the pipe.

He loves to roll on his back in back in it.

Sewer line update. pipe work is a work of art

Started hooking existing sewer lines to the new 6 inch pipe today.

The cone is the shut off valve for the water line we found yesterday.  The 2 white pipes are 4 inch existing lines from the park on the north side of the new 6 inch line.

In the pic below you can see the 4 inch lines on the north side of our new line.  They are the same as above, and if you look you can barely see a 6 inch line on the south side of the 6 inch line we are putting in.

I think the 6 inch line we came across is for sites 1-6 and the dump station.

Sewer pipe install we struck water...

 The digger got across the road, and vollia they struck water. It is a water pipe that we have no idea where it goes, but it does NOT go to our park.  

 The break is at this end of the ditch, the sewer main is in the distance.

They put a shut off valve on the pipe  and turned our water back on.  We confirmed All our water is working in the park, so we think the water was going to a neighbor?   On the bright side, we found out the shut off valve at the meter works, and we were able to turn off the water to the whole park.

Shut off valve is under cone in pic.

The valve is north of the 6 inch sewer line.

We will leave it uncovered a few days to be sure it is not used by us before burying it.

Update, they put a vertical piece of PVC sewer pipe with metal tape at the shut off valve in case we want to find it again.

Victory!

 Suzi's mom Carol has been here at Choteau Mountain View RV Campground for about a month now.

We have a hill behind the park where the city water is, and she has been walking the trail to the top, getting farther each time. 

Today she made it all the way to the top!

Congrats Carol!

Sewer update Choteau Mountain View RV Campground

 The guys got a little digging done.  They got the new pipe installed and glued to the sewer manhole.

The city sewer main is in the neighbors yard, across a gravel street.

They don't like the look of the upper 4 inch pipe so they are going to attach it to the 6 inch pipe after they cross the road and are in my yard.

They started to backfill, the metal tape is put on the pipe so if anyone ever needs to dig in the area they can find it without needing to dig.

Sewer fun at Choteau Mountain View RV Campground upgrade

 So it turns out folks love sewer hookups for their RV's.

So, we are wanting to put sewer on the opposite side of the park from the city hookup, without having to pump stuff up hill.

Our plan is to put a 6 inch poly line all the way down to the other side of the park and attach any other sewer lines to the new line, plus put in occasional Ys in the line for future hookups.  At the other end we will put in a manhole for clean out access plus there will be clean outs along the way.  Then we will turn left uphill and replace any old utilities, and put in new.  The Field to the East is unusable with too much broken infrastructure.

The diggers finally broke ground this week.  This is where I get nervous...

Found out we have 2 pipes connecting into the city main.

  The top one is a 4 inch pipe which is way to shallow for our neighborhood (part of the reason we are closed in the winter), and the 2nd pipe is the lower one is a 6 inch pipe and is actually broken right where it goes into the main.  In the pic below they opened up the pipe to let stuff flow.

Here is a shot of the inside of the pipe showing how bad the blockage is.  The workers think the brake might be from an earthquake we had a few years back.