• 0:01 - 0:35
All right. So I'm up here at John's place. This is a bunch of material here. We can harvest all this material. There's a little material behind me as well, which I got some pictures of, but then basically we're looking to essentially just get John through his access permit approval and the final inspection, the slopes off on the left there's material there, you can see there's a little material there. There's a little material there on the right there's material around here. If we just kinda clean it up and, and go through and harvest little piles, maybe a little bit here on the left.
• 0:36 - 0:50
There's some material here on the left that got thrown over the hillside. So we can pull some of that back and make this slope a little more gradual. I do. We could also cut some of that back just a little bit, and Le lean it back into the hill and stabilize that a little bit.
• 0:51 - 1:23
Look into, have stable slopes everywhere. We will want to read the specs and the guidelines and review and refresh on those and make sure that we're going to be within the guidelines of Boulder county. John is going to ask Boulder county if they are going to require any road base going down here for a final, uh, final top dressing on this driveway, you can see it's pitched into the hillside quite well. I was thinking that we want to make this slope here on the left, more gradual, closer to a 33% slope.
• 1:25 - 1:46
And instead of what we have now is more of a 45 degree slope. So we can get that going a little bit better. Um, but we can cut out this ditch a little bit and there was a spot that John wanted me to look at a culvert. I think it's right in here.
• 1:46 - 2:22
This is going to be the first one that is rather shallow and John and, and not pitched very well. But I feel that this is probably pitched. Just find this, this Colbert here. We want to see a 2% pitch on these culverts. Typically we'll confirm that with the engineer plans, um, we can cut and define this ditch a little bit better on the right hand side with the blade generates some material that could get graded in these culverts do have a, a pretty low minimal cover layer right now.
• 2:22 - 2:58
You typically want to see closer to 12 inches of cover layer over the tops of the culverts. These are closer to four to six inches in most places. So we want to add little material over the tops of the culverts. Um, the vegetation is starting to come back. So that's good. I was almost tempted to just call Boulder county out here for a final inspection, but John didn't want to necessarily alert them to any other breaches and, and have them call for us to fully adhere to the engineer guidelines in the engineer plan. If we can establish 33% slope on these spots, um, there's a bunch of material here.
• 2:59 - 3:40
As well, layering out the base of these slopes off on the left-hand side. So I'd like to just go ahead and harvest any material that we can. The fence is falling down in some places. These, this is a catchment fence here that's made that was put in place just to catch the tumbling rocks. So where it's being knocked over and falling down, we would go ahead and just rip that out and throw it in the trash and then try to clean up the down slope edge of this, of this, uh, hillside here and basically add material to the bottom of the trench so that the slope is closer to 33%, as opposed to 45%.
• 3:40 - 4:00
Like what is now the natural angle of repose for a tumbling rock slope or sand slope is 45%. So that's pretty much where this hillside has landed or the slope on the down slope edge of the driveway, but you can see that it is quite stable.
• 4:00 - 4:30
You don't see any major erosion on here because it is so Rocky, but this, this little section of the fence is pushed down. So we would want to pull that back and then add material to the base here of, of this slope. Um, so that the, so that the slope on the downslope edge of the driveway is close to the two 33% as opposed to 45. Here's another Culver coming up. We'll want to add some cover layer on there as well.
• 4:31 - 5:03
I want to get 12 inches of cover would like to see this, this rock removed. And we could use some of this rock to kind of, um, you know, in case the catchment basin at the mouth of this culvert and dig that out a little bit. If we can at least rip out it with some, uh, with some sharp digging teeth and pulling some of this soil back and trying to create a 33% slope everywhere all up and down and along this driveway, we can carve out a little bit of a drainage ditch here.
• 5:03 - 5:14
That's going down to the next culvert and add any material that we can harvest to the base of this hillside so that we can get this close to 33% slope on the left.
• 5:16 - 5:51
We want 12 inches of cover on here. You know, we can probably just pull some of the lip back on the, at the top of this slope here, uh, right here, and then push it down and just cut this. And then we still have plenty of width on this driveway. This is nice and wide and this where they, they took out this pullout in this passing lane and then just throw it over here. So in these sections, we have lots of material that we could work with by basically just pulling some of that back and getting that slope to be the 33% through here as well.
• 5:51 - 5:57
We could lean that back into the hillside just a little bit. We would lose a little bit of grass and vegetation, which the cousin customer likes,.
• 5:57 - 6:31
But this is good top soil. And we could use that to revenge over here on the left-hand side, the fence is in good condition over here. So if there's anything we can do to leave the fence here, um, that would be a good solution. We can dig out some of this and put some SA a single course of heavy boulders at the bottom two to three foot diameter. And, and have that be, uh, a little section of retaining wall. We would probably do, uh, I would say 4, 3, 3 tandems of, of boulders up in here, if not four.
• 6:32 - 6:55
Um, and then this is the end of the driveway. At this point, it turns into C dot. So, um, we would not be maintaining this portion down here. This is see dots, uh, access and their jurisdiction. So that's the long and short of it. That's the full, that's the full rundown of this driveway. Um, again, I'd like to check out the book.