This is the second video in a series showing what to look for when inspecting bonded fiber matrix.
November 12, 2020
Inspecting Bonded Fiber Matrix Part 2
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November 11, 2020
Inspecting Bonded Fiber Matrix Part 1
This is the first in a series showing what to look for when inspecting bonded fiber matrix.
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November 9, 2020
Watch the River Flow
Had to get out of the house, I was going crazy. So, I drove up to the Staircase campground to watch the river flow.
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October 27, 2020
Dusty Spalls
Dusty Spalls-sounds like the name of a cowboy in an old “B” western film. These quarry spalls came with enough crushed rock dust to create a fugitive dust cloud when dropped into a “skip” box.
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October 23, 2020
Small Oil Spill
I usually require a contractor to clean up a small oil spill like this. We will remove all of the soil on this project and dispose it as mildly contaminated; I let it go this time.
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October 22, 2020
Stay on the Plates
Please stay on the steel plates! We are using steel plates for a construction access to this long, narrow site. We exit onto the parking lot of an adjacent company. Sediment trackout is not an option. There is no place to install a tire wash, which I would normally require on a project like this. This requires a lot of oversight to work and one of the things we expect is for trucks to stay on the plates so they don’t pick up any dirt on the tires. This driver didn’t get the message, and the excavator operator could have beeped to stop the driver from backing too far.
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October 20, 2020
Steel Plates Trackout
Trackout happens when you back trucks off of the steel plates onto dirt to unload materials. The plan was for trucks to stay on plates, back to the end and dump. The excavator was to move the materials around the site. There is no tire wash on this project as there isn’t room, so staying on the plates is required and necessary. The trackout is onto the neighbors parking lot, our only site access, and they don’t appreciate dirt ending up in their stormwater swale when the rains come.
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October 19, 2020
October 15, 2020
Sediment Trackout Happens
Sediment trackout happens when you back trucks off of the steel plates onto dirt to unload materials. The plan was for trucks to stay on plates, back to the end and dump.
The excavator was to move the materials around the site. There is no tire wash on this project as there isn’t room, so staying on the plates is required and necessary. The trackout is onto the neighbors parking lot, our only site access, and they don’t appreciate dirt ending up in their stormwater swale when the rains come.
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October 13, 2020
Plastic Covered Slope
Here is a nice, plastic covered slope. They have placed sand bags on the seams, the seams are overlapped at least 12 inches and the plastic is run all the way to the bottom of the slope. This is a riverbank habitat restoration project on the Duwamish Waterway.
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