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Septic location and setbacks from surrounding wells
Well location and setbacks from surrounding septic systems
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all right hey guys what's up jesse i'm up here in alma colorado we're going to take care of this uh little driveway grading job um the customer tried to get this culvert in the ground by hand as you can see it's uh it's you know needs some more cover layer needs to be hogged out here in front as well as
all right guys check it out this is the uh proposed ball i'm up here in alma colorado customer is mark moore this is lot 10. all right hey mark this is jesse i got all this pile of trees here this is after the fir the second little work sprint here got a pile of boulders there there's a machine we're using this is the well spot so they can get right up to it i'll probably ramp this up just a little bit more this is cut down um by your drawing it looks like you're kind of actually wanting to go all the way out into there so we got this stuff here got these trees here i didn't know if you wanted me to go ahead and try to not take these trees down and um set them aside and kind of get this all graded out a little bit big old open parking area right in here i think that would be nice um and then yeah i got a few more hours left in the tank in terms of what we've talked about on budget-wise and everything like that so planning to come out here in the morning i still gotta get the test bits done and yeah i'm gonna grade this out a little a little bit more but this is about what we can do
right over here and so we're gonna cut this in take out these trees give this all a nice nice grate out um take out these stumps that have been cut here in the middle um i'm gonna bring the driveway right up through here and then let's see it's supposed to be flagged out for me i'm gonna see if i can find it looks like we got some x's on those trees there as well as that has some paint on it i am going to assume that these x's indicate we will be removing them um i believe we'll be coming up through and into here
and then we have what looks to me like we got some sticks proposed house this is going to be the proposed house site
that's a nice string here
this is our proposed house site
property line
there's flags and string going all the way down there
string all along the back here believe this is our
approximate property line string here we're still falling all the way up to the top
coming all the way up to
property corner
about 10.
there's some old test bits and two lots down that we did
just amazing to me that i could probably just drive around the country with my excavator and sell jobs and make plenty money
i'm assuming the lot comes back this way there's a fence line for the neighbors
comes back this way
the trees over here let's go all the way out to the front i'll see if i can find all four corners but i do want to come in and see what this steak is here
going to propose the septic system goes we're in park county we need to have 200 feet off of the well so this is quite a ways out
if i go ahead and call the customer here i'm gonna take out a nice wide swath of trees take care of these stumps
and do a little cleanup see if i can find some property corners it's real important to find the property see what we're dealing with i can see there's one right up there in the trees and there's gonna be another one down in here my fourth corner so if i walk straight through the trees over this way i shall find
the next property line
i will need to remember to keep the tape measure with me tomorrow i should probably
angie help me with the placement of the midfield septic the pull tape and i will need to be
there's three stakes there another stake right up there
property line what is going on over here
property line i think let's see what we have over
septic i know that the neighboring wall is down there so this might be our
next property corner is
property corner
so we got quite a bit of room in this aspen grove
it's a nice good sized lot guestimating probably about two acres flags through here definitely gonna need to see where the customer wants to go with this driveway here's some green i'm thinking our customers thinking this is septic
proposed okay right in here that's good these aspens can indicate ground water but i don't think there's gonna be any ground water in here myself i dug super deep like 10 feet deep and i didn't hit groundwater
down below this site
this is the proposed house location closed well we'll need to pull tape and see i don't think we're going to have 200 feet between the septic and the well so that is something that we're gonna have to
revisit with the customer super cool little dp here for now i think we're gonna bring bring the driveway straight into here i'll call the customer and see what we're looking at so yeah we could really use some some gravel in here we a little more time and i could get some nice drainage trenches in on the sides um up here
you know i've been spending a lot of time just kind of pushing dirt and material down into here to kind of get this this transition filled in a little bit better and then this culvert is buried right here as you can see it's really not much uh road the drainage is going right down the road so i mean ideally we would cut a basin from probably right up in there and bring that water right over into here with a little water bar um yeah because that is not gonna be seeing any water which is fine you're gonna have more excavation equipment out here when you do the house so we can just you know keep an eye on that see if you wanted to relocate this into into the road over here the culvert you know this might be a better termination point for it and do a nice big basin for it right there and then send it straight across and over into here where as you can see i kind of have it trenched out a little bit there bring the water in this way and then this is kind of an apron um entrance for the driveway so that's nice took some trees out on the edges but the driveway now i i like the route kind of has a nice meandering route as you go in um it would be really nice to get the
get the turnaround spot up there at the top so you could at least get turned around i think that's my recommendation here's the well those ribbons up there are the corner and then
you know the property line is basically right over in there so i'm essentially right on the property line right here um those ribbons up there straight to here and so what i'd like to do is actually tuck this well head up into there as far up into there as we can possibly get i think this is a pretty good corridor here and the will well rig ought to be able to come right up through this de-vegetated corridor here run over this little aspen and turn this corner and get right up into there we got to take this aspen out a little bit of chainsaw work
and so some ground labor taking out maybe one or two more of these trees that stump get it down low um and get this well rig all the way up in there what that's gonna do is allow us to just barely squeak in our
setback requirement of 200 feet off of the well for the leech field i'm going to go ahead and pace it off here we have one
70 paces right to here so that's roughly 200 feet from where i went back and so here's our test pits got a ramp coming out i'm going to leave these open uh we have a real kind of really fine super dusty topsoil and silty material that goes down to about there or so i'd say about three and a half feet down underlain by a another fine kind of sandy uh silty till material and this is it here it's got some cobbles in it and this is really what we're we're looking at so this is like a sandy material
with cobbles sand and gravel we've got two of these pits here
both of them eight feet deep about 15 feet apart or so this is where i would propose we put the sta basically in parallel to this driveway um again we're gonna need to maximize our setback and then this property is in between three already existing properties with existing wellheads so we got one there to the south one there to the west and one there to the east the one there in the east is way up in the hills up behind the up behind the property because the neighbors over here have a have a septic right in here but we basically need to come this far up away from that property there in order to be 200 feet away from that wellhead and then we're basically i'm guesstimating right at 200 feet away from that other wellhead at the property of the west so there's not a lot of room we could do treatment i believe here in park county and get a setback reduction down to 100 feet from 200 feet which would basically give us a lot of free reign so if this is a disagreeable location for the for the leech field for whatever reason you know we can always just look at doing advanced treatment which is an additional ten thousand dollars by the time it's all said and done with installation and everything else to get this field and then we can put this field anywhere we want it was originally marked out over here in the aspens which is seems like a nice spot but these aspens could indicate some shallow groundwater over here yeah so that's that's long and short of it