FORDOG VOLUNTEERS INSTALL NEW DRAINS AT PHOENIX DOG PARK |
The Drain Project was completed on Saturday, May 5th. At the bottom of this photo album, there is a list of the volunteers. It is quite impressive what a community can accomplish when everyone pitchs in! XXXXX<Dan Barkley>
Friday, April 13th
Five FORDOG Volunteers arrive at New Phoenix Dog Park to begin the project. They cut five concrete pads in preparation to remove the old drains, then remove the excess concrete. The Park District supplied a generator and a jack hammer. FORDOG volunteers bring shovels, digging bars, drills, two concrete saws, hoses, electrical chords and other various tools. In 3 and 1/2 hours, they complete the first phase of the project.
Hats off to Buck, Tom, Sky (who became a new father on Sunday), Travis, and Dan |
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Travis drills the pilot holes |
Tom (left), Sky and Buck cut the concrete. |
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Travis uses the jack hammer to remove excess concrete. |
Sky removes excess concrete and cleans the area around the old drain. |
Old Drains and Waste Concrete |
Saturday, April 14th - It rains almost all day!
Sunday, April 15th
A dozen volunteers show up with shovels, wheelbarrows, digging bars and other various tools. FORDOG rents a Ditch Witch to dig the trenches. Buck donates the drain pipe, cleanout spouts, and popups. FORDOG purchases the catch basins. The FORDOG Steering Committee donates water and lunch.
At the end of 6 and 1/2 hours, this crew installs all of the new catch basins and drainage pipe. They worked VERY hard. |
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Volunteers arrive to install the new drains. |
Ferrell ran that Ditch Witch all day and dug the trenches for 5 drains. The rest of the crew widened the trenches, poured a LOT of gravel and layed pipe. |
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The crew lays pipe and pours gravel. |
The first drain is completed. Notice the larger catch basin and further down is a "clean out" pipe and a pop-up valve for excess water. The drain pipes are 4 inches in diameter. |
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| This is one of the wading pool pads. Notice the large 12-inch catch basin. The drain pipes run outside of the dog park. |
All the catch basins and drain pipes have been installed. Next phase: remove the excess dirt and re-pour the concrete.
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Week of April 30th
Park District and 4 volunteers clean up the excess dirt around the ditches |
Saturday, May 5th
11 Volunteers pour concrete where the old drains were cut out and do the finish work. Project Complete! |
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Excess dirt where drains were dug. |
Randy delivers the concrete. |
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Wheel barrows line up to move concrete to the concrete pads. |
Pouring the "mud"! |
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Frank G. delivers... |
Starting the finish work. |
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Getting it just right. |
Completing the finish work. |
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Wash off area outside of the dog park |
Swimming pool pad. |
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Our sincerest thanks to the following for making this a successful project:
- Buck Ensign (Straw Boss)
- Tomas Swarn
- Travis Taylor and Patricia Rivas
- Sky Florentz
- Randy and Kammy Burleson
- Mike Kelly
- Ferrell Stofle
- Max Salvater
- Frank Dorf
- Frank Guzzo
- John Weimer
- Richard Payne
- Gordon Mulhern
- Chris Knutsen
- Richard Booth
- Tim Trono
- Richard Feldman
- Bob and Ann Wolf
- Mathias Puhlhofer
- Jim and Mary Prentice
- Marcelle Venhaus
- Dan and Marcia Barkley
- Rick Vaughn (Fair Oaks Parks and Recreation District)
The above list doesn't include the crew that moved all of the ameneties to our temporary facility. (I hope I didn't leave anyone out. You can chastise me and I will make the correction if you will e-mail FORDOG. <Marcia was out of town when I posted this page. She usually proof reads my work, but not this time, so please forgive me for any oversite. :-) >
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