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Installing Pond in Butterfly Meadow
by
Tarun Anupindi
Troop
111
, Fremont
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My project was to build a tule pond, Our job
was to dig out the area starting with clearing plants in the way and
just making the ground 'diggable'. We started off with the shovels
provided by the beneficiary and spent about a day digging the outline of
the pond liner so we can snugly fit it into the ground. Our first
project workday involved just clearing the plants and making a
significant dent in the ground for the pond site. On the second day of
my eagle workday, we set out to finish completely digging the pond
liner. One of the biggest challenges I would say was trying to get the
perfect level so that the pond wouldn't tip over when water was added.
Making minor tweaks and scrapes in the dirt to perfect the pond liner
shape was definitely a time consuming task. Our second workday had been
completely dedicated to perfectly digging out the pond liner and we were
able to do that! There were stones around the project site so we used
those and placed them around the pond liner for decoration. On our 3rd
and last project workday we improved stability on the pond by placing
gravel around the entire area and using it to fill in small crevices
around the pond liners border. We also cleared out a few more plants
that were around the area. We embedded the stones from the last workday
in gravel and the project was officially completed!
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making holes |
Over the past 3 workdays a total of 13
people helped me and they were all from my boy scout troop. We
ammassed a total of 72 man hours on the project and the outcome came
out great! I want to give my warmest thank you to those who
participated in my project and a shout out to those who went to all
3 of my workdays. I'd also like to thank my mom and sister for
providing refreshments and snacks to the workers needs. During the
workday, the jobs were distributed evenly, we had around 5-6 people
working to dig out the pond liner and filling up the wheelbarrows
with the dug up dirt, and another 5 to cycle back and forth with
emptying the wheelbarrows. On day 3 where there wasn't much involved
digging I had it so not as many people showed up as it seemed
unnecessary. We split it up where majority were placing gravel,
some were moving back and forth filling the wheelbarrows with gravel
and the remaining people were clearing plants and spreading out
stray dirt. Everyone worked really hard and I am proud of them all.
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pond liner in the ground |
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