If you have been by the club the last couple of days you may have seen the heavy equipment on #12 North. As I previously discussed we are draining the pond and trying to clean around the intake for the pump station. The photo below shows the intake (marked by red arrow) this was taken in 2013 and you can see the silt that had accumulated in the pond at that time. Fast forward to 8 years later and a lot of construction to the west of us that drains through our property and you can imagine the silt that has accumulated around the intake now.
We are using a 6" pump to draw down the water level so we can work. Here is a couple of photos of the pump and discharge. It takes a big pump to do the work quickly. We have drained the ponds upstream from us and now they are closed off and accumulating water. Our time is very limited to get the work done before we get more water.
Once it is drawn down we use the long reach hoe to pull the debris out of the pond. We will load it onto this muck truck and dump it into a hole that we had dug yesterday. Once we are done we will cover up the silt and re-sod the hole and the damage from hauling the silt. Hopefully all goes well today.
