Back again. I closed my Flickr link and re-opened it from here, so the link I posted above should work. I corrected some typos, but each picture has a brief caption below it. There is a "Next" button with an arrow in the upper right of the picture area to help you scroll through them. I added 22 photos, so that should give you a pretty good idea of what I did, and the progressive stages of construction. I may add to that, but for starters there are 22 pictures.
All of this work was done the week of October 18, but I think there is a time stamp on one or more pictures that says "11" for November, which is wrong. I used two cameras and obviously I didn't have the second (new) camera's time and date set correctly.
I didn't note the specifics of the equipment but I can get that info if any of you are interested. All I remember is that the contractor said that the track hoe could dig around 32 feet deep and the John Deere tractor was pulling a 17 yard dirt pan. The track hoe bucket was 4 feet wide I think. We dug wider than that where we hit sand, but the rest of the core ditch was about the same width as the bucket, so the core ditch is basically 4 feet wide when we had a good clay backing, and 8 feet wide when we dug out sand and packed with clay.
The link works for me when I click it here in Pond Boss. Let me know how it works for you.
Here is the link to the previous set of photos, taken to show the lake draining and during low water stage after it had seeped down in late summer to the evelation that it usually stops. These were taken to show the lake and terrain before I began construction.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomatodon/sets/72157624817825264/Thanks again!
PS. I'm hoping by 11-10-10 that the water will start flooding over the actual construction area where we suspect the leak was. When it gets over that a foot or so deep I plan to cut the well off and see if it seeps down any. If it does I can drop it back a little and try to plate over other areas with clay. But am hoping for the best and that we solved the problem. After at least 15 years of dealing with this I'm still praying we got it right this time. After this, we're running out of options other than a lot of clay plating.
