This will be a very long read
So to start things off I live in a neighborhood that has a retention pond in front of our houses(lake lot) lol. This neighborhood used to be a golf course with a little water hazard that they turned into a long skinny retention pond with a 6x5 concrete inlet on one side with a large drain on the other.
The pond stays at a normal level and when we get a hard rain the pond rises a few feet and flows out the drain at the other end. Well fast forward several years and folks building a few neighborhoods that drain into the drainage ditch there has been a lot of silt build up in the pond.
The HOA has hired someone to drain and dig the pond out because it actually overflowed into the streets for the first time in 8 years recently. So first thing I notice is a large pump rented from United rentals and a large old track hoe in front of my house one day.
First off he drains the pond and we don’t have any rain for 2 weeks so it would be a perfect time to get the work done but the trackhoe never moves. Then we get some crazy flash flood and the large rented pump goes completely under water so the guy rushes out to save the pump and tears up the sidewalk.
Then he works on the pump and if I had to guess doesn’t let United rentals know that the pump was under 6 foot of water. So now we have a full pond, flooded pump, and broken sidewalk.
After about 20 days he drains the pond for the 3rd or 4th time with someone watching the pump(asleep in their vehicle) to get about 5% of the job done. He then drains the pond again and digs a bucket around the whole pond right on the edges. He piles all the smelly mud rotten fish dirt up by the road and it has been there for 30 days plus.
Pond fills again rinse and repeat. This is going on since the Equipment showed up close to 45 days but work didn’t start until the end of May.
At this point tho guy can’t be making any money with the way things have been going and the pump rental. I think he has other jobs but the trackhoe and pump have never left. He pays someone to watch the pump drain the pond for several hrs and the equipment operator shows up work a few hours in the afternoon then doesn’t show up for two days and it rains again. Not to mention the trackhoe leaks so much hydraulic fluid it kills every bit of grass it drives across.
He is also planning on piling all the mud up on the common area around the pond and letting it dry to then come and pick it up.
To top it off I told my wife his dumbass was going to fall into the dam pond with his trackhoe because he was so close to the edge trying to dig across the other side after he dug out the side he was on.
Add to the fee a very large wrecker to pull said dumbass out of pond.
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So to start things off I live in a neighborhood that has a retention pond in front of our houses(lake lot) lol. This neighborhood used to be a golf course with a little water hazard that they turned into a long skinny retention pond with a 6x5 concrete inlet on one side with a large drain on the other.
The pond stays at a normal level and when we get a hard rain the pond rises a few feet and flows out the drain at the other end. Well fast forward several years and folks building a few neighborhoods that drain into the drainage ditch there has been a lot of silt build up in the pond.
The HOA has hired someone to drain and dig the pond out because it actually overflowed into the streets for the first time in 8 years recently. So first thing I notice is a large pump rented from United rentals and a large old track hoe in front of my house one day.
First off he drains the pond and we don’t have any rain for 2 weeks so it would be a perfect time to get the work done but the trackhoe never moves. Then we get some crazy flash flood and the large rented pump goes completely under water so the guy rushes out to save the pump and tears up the sidewalk.
Then he works on the pump and if I had to guess doesn’t let United rentals know that the pump was under 6 foot of water. So now we have a full pond, flooded pump, and broken sidewalk.
After about 20 days he drains the pond for the 3rd or 4th time with someone watching the pump(asleep in their vehicle) to get about 5% of the job done. He then drains the pond again and digs a bucket around the whole pond right on the edges. He piles all the smelly mud rotten fish dirt up by the road and it has been there for 30 days plus.
Pond fills again rinse and repeat. This is going on since the Equipment showed up close to 45 days but work didn’t start until the end of May.
At this point tho guy can’t be making any money with the way things have been going and the pump rental. I think he has other jobs but the trackhoe and pump have never left. He pays someone to watch the pump drain the pond for several hrs and the equipment operator shows up work a few hours in the afternoon then doesn’t show up for two days and it rains again. Not to mention the trackhoe leaks so much hydraulic fluid it kills every bit of grass it drives across.
He is also planning on piling all the mud up on the common area around the pond and letting it dry to then come and pick it up.
To top it off I told my wife his dumbass was going to fall into the dam pond with his trackhoe because he was so close to the edge trying to dig across the other side after he dug out the side he was on.
Add to the fee a very large wrecker to pull said dumbass out of pond.
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