Week 3- silt, pcs, water- and how to find a live effluent line in 20 minutes or less!

Early in Week 3 we spent considerable time protecting Plummer Creek from silt intrusion due to dewatering efforts. Straw waddles were installed on both sides of the Trail of Coeur d'Alenes just in case-





Water was still being pumped from the trench (which was backfilled by end of the week) but a sump hole was created next to the Treatment basin to drain that area-




By mid-week the PREM-1 (phosphorous removal) hole began to take shape-



but we were still dealing with PCS in both the Treatment hole and the Phosphorous hole, you can see some dark rocky PCS just below the excavator in this picture-



By the end of the week we literally hit "rock bottom" in the PREM hole which led to a discussion about blasting, then, since there was nothing better to do, the excavator went in search of more work! Well, let's just say, they found more work to do!



"Do you smell chlorine too?"