Week 15 was a day short because of Labor Day weekend. This is one of the rare weeks in which we did not pour concrete lately. The PREM building concrete forms are labor-intensive so the south half pour rolled into next week. Both the south half of the PREM building and an interior wall in the Treatment building will have concrete poured on Monday.
Otherwise our week began in the fog-
The PREM form building continued, here's a few shots which show how the 3rd level of plywood forms came together this week, and you can see we ended up with better weather late in the week!-
Owens Construction, the excavation subcontractor, has been busy at the Wetland Discharge Site. This is where the treated water (effluent) exits the system. The effluent is pumped about 3,500 feet to the southwest (as the crow flies) from the treatment plant into a gravel bed. There it will percolates back into ground water and Plummer Creek. In the 2nd picture the trench where gravel and perforated pipe will be placed is on the left and the access road for construction vehicles is on the right-
To wrap up, here is a view of the PREM building from the northwest. This unfinished north half will begin form work next week after the south half pour is complete-
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