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Interesting soil there. Is all of the black soil the old shore line?
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Ethan,
It is construction debris. This job site is part of the old Fountain Avenue landfill. This section is the old C&D section of the landfill. C&D was dumped here in the '30s thru the '50s. In the early '70s they pumped 5 million yards of hydraulic sand from Jamaica Bay and capped the landfill with 6 to 15 feet of sand.
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screed4713 wrote:Ethan,
It is construction debris. This job site is part of the old Fountain Avenue landfill. This section is the old C&D section of the landfill. C&D was dumped here in the '30s thru the '50s. In the early '70s they pumped 5 million yards of hydraulic sand from Jamaica Bay and capped the landfill with 6 to 15 feet of sand.
Todd Thanks, around here there is just endless clay.
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Looks like one miserable job. I Feel bad for the pipelayers. I've done running sand plenty but it wasn't 2 feet of slop.
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^^^I was going to say - that is some nasty looking material... 
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nasty material indeed....we did hit patches of bog/clay material witch actually helped with holding the water back, wish there had been a little more sadly.
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Definitely does not look like any fun digging in that. Thanks for sharing.
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Jim
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I feel bad for the laborers and pipelayers as well, I'd hate to be in such conditions! Ahhh... I like Albertan clay even better now...
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You guys can't imagine what that decaying wood smells like!!!!!! I've been saying for years that, "Theres no dirt left in Brooklyn!" It was a pretty rough job but we pushed through and got it done. Chris and the guys were getting 220 to 280 feet a day of 60" pipe with three man holes. Not bad considering they were 7 feet below ground water in most areas. Without the GPS it would have been even harder. We used the GPS to set the leaching sumps. We used 10' diameter leaching rings as sumps for the dewatering and a 6' hydraulic pump with some three inch pumps helping out. The bottom of the leaching rings were 15' under water. At one point we were putting a 6" plastic pipe next to the sewer pipe so that the ground water would keep running to the pumps and we backfilled and pulled the drag box. We are doing the sewer tie in now. Its 12' below ground water. I'll try to get some pictures tomorrow. I felt terrible for the guys too!!! They did an amazing job, 15,000 feet of storm drainage and 4,000 feet of sewer. You won't find a better pipe crew in NYC than these guys. They make me proud every day!!!!!
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Nice pics! Conditions like that are a real challenge.
Dump on the edges, the middle will take care of itself.
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Nice shots some operation ever uncover something cool like a buried old ship or dino bones maybe an old train guess that would halt things especially with archeologists ?
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