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| Caption: This is the landslide before Cascade Utilities, Inc. was called to save the day! |
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| Caption: As you can see there is a large sink hole at the top and the hillside is sliding down to the neighbors property below. |
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| Caption: It was obvious from the start that this was something that had been going on for a long time and the homeowners had done as much as they could to defer the slide. |
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| Caption: We begin by excavating and removing the soil that had been on the move! |
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| Caption: As the soil is removed, it is placed into awaiting dump trucks to be hauled away to an off-site dump site. |
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| Caption: There is one excavator working the bottom of the slide and a 2nd that it working on stabilizing the ground above. |
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| Caption: The two excavators continue to remove the unstable soil and load into dump trucks. |
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| Caption: Excavation continues! It's necessary to remove all unstable soil before any drainage work is done. This is a huge portion of the work for these types of projects. |
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| Caption: Excavation continues until there is stable soil found. |
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| Caption: Once excavation is complete, we placed a filter fabric on the ground before the pipe is installed. |
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| Caption: After the filter fabric is secure, the drainage pipes are installed and connected to the existing drainage system. |
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| Caption: As you can see, we have excavated the soil in a stair like fashion. The pipes are being installed and connected. After one stair has all the pipe connected, it's covered in pea gravel. |
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| Caption: Here we are connecting the newly installed pipes into the existing storm system at the bottom of the hill. |
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| Caption: More pea gravel is placed on each stair and the pipes continue to be connected together. |
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| Caption: Compacting the material below. |
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| Caption: The pea gravel is carefuly spread over each stair and pipe that was installed. This helps the water drain right down into the pipes we just put in. |
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| Caption: We have several highly skilled laborers and foremen, many of which have been with this company for 10-20 years! If we can't get a machine in to do all the work, we have a laborer that can! |
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| Caption: The excavator keeps on compacting the earth below. |
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| Caption: We're getting closer and closer to the finished product! |
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| Caption: Just a second view to get a good idea of just how much soil was removed! |
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| Caption: The lower stair is complete and now both excavators work on comapcting the soil on the upper stair. |
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| Caption: After the pea gravel has been placed and compacted, a thick layer of topsoil is placed over the area and compacted as well. |
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| Caption: At this point we call in one of our subcontractors who is spraying the hill with grass seed which will help stabilize the hill in the future. |
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| Caption: See the concrete structures at the top of the hill? Those are going to collect water carry it to the storm system at the bottom. |
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| Caption: After the grass seed is on the hill a layer of straw is palced above it. This helps the grass grow and also assists in soil stabilization. |
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| Caption: A layer of topsoil is placed at the top of the hill the bring the backyard together with the new landscaping. |
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| Caption: The straw that is placed on this hill is held together in a filter fabric and staked to the hill to prevent it from sliding too! |
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| Caption: There are many variations on the way you can end a hillslide restoration like this. A nice rock retaining wall at the bottom will assist in stabilization of the hill as well as bring the entire project together. |
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| Caption: The straw is staked directly to the top of the hill as well as the bottom. |
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| Caption: One more section to go! |
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| Caption: Just about a finished project! |
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| Caption: You can barely see the tops of the concrete drainage structures, but they are certainly there and ready to get to work! |
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| Caption: After the hillside is complete, we now begin restoring the backyard of our homeowner. |
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| Caption: Everything is graded out and ready for new lawn to be placed. |
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| Caption: Final grade of backyard. |
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| Caption: New landscaping as well as a look at the top section of the hill which is just small concrete blocks. You can also use stamped concrete for more of a designer look. |
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| Caption: And our completed product! Even with some green grass starting to grow! |
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| Caption: The driveway is replaced since most driveways aren't cut out for heavy machinery and dump trucks to use it for any length of time. |
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| Caption: There view was widened after we left there too! And what a view it is! |
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