cool_hardware52
Contributor
Any Pictures of this modern day flood? Not that I’m doubting you, but i do enjoy a bit of Construction Carnage. Plus you may need them for collecting on Destructive Deluge Damages. If you’re feeling like sharing, I’d also love to hear the recap of your conversation with your future neighbor, whom I do hope was quite reasonable and did not blame you for hitting an underground spring, disturbing ancient water spirits, and/or digging up his water pipes, as an excuse to avoid his moral and monetary obligations.
Maybe later, too busy to chase them now. I do have, on an old phone,(not sure where that is right now) pics of an excavator buried up to the cab, and the backhoe sent to rescue it buried up to the frame. All the irrigation in this area is via surface ditches and my neighbor modified a ditch on his property so it backed up and flooded and unused corner of his property and discharged over on to mine directly into the area around our improvements. I have since repaired the ditch (at my expense) and the site is dry, but it saturated the soil and made it unstable for months. We ultimately had to over ex about 1500 cubic yards and replace with rock and then put the struct fill back and recompact, but only after it dried enough to support heavy equipment. There has been too much water in the Carson Valley Since the winter of 2016-2017, lots of flooding, getting back to normal about now.
Tobin