5-26-11 Visit with the County

On Thursday, the 26th, I had located a possible resource.  Someone who might be able to tell us something about where the water was going.  We were still seeing that approximately 1/4 of the water was going across the road and into the orchard.   I called the Utah County Engineer, and he agreed to come out that afternoon and take a look at the driveway cracking, as well as the water holes.  He did come at about 2:30 that afternoon and did some looking, head scratching and said he would look at some old maps and call us back.  The holiday weekend must have gotten in the way.  We have not yet heard back from him.

This same day, a concerned neighbor called and suggested that we line the ditch with some very heavy duty plastic in order to prevent the water from going into the holes.  Unfortunately, the cost of a 40X200 ft. sheet of  extra heavy duty plastic has prevented us from doing that to this point.  Hopefully, if we can locate the Engineer, and find that there is, indeed, a problem with the water being lost under the homes, the canal company will step in and line the canal.  

The water in the orchard the evening of the 26th had moved from row 22 to 30.  The ground is soaking in a lot of water.  I think that the water will move much more quickly once it hits the road.  If I had to guess, I would say that will be tomorrow - row 35 is pretty much even with the level of the road.  

On a brighter note, the Fire Chief in Genola - Greg is a great prankster.  I noticed a small sign at the bottom of our driveway tonight.

I called a friend at 9:30 pm, and told her I had a "vinyl letter emergency".  She was kind '
enough to take time from her own business to help change the signs over.
I think Greg was surprised the next evening when he came
home from work!
The signs came down, but were back up again the next morning - bearing
Bob's name again!

The kids and I spent all day watching for Greg to drive by, laughing at
how we had turned the tables.
Sometimes small towns are really fun!

This is the water that is exiting into the orchard across the road.  

You can see that the force of the water is wearing a path into the orchard.  The first 8-10 rows of
trees are beautiful all pines.  After that there are 169 rows of cherry trees.

There was not much change in the water situation on Friday the 27th.  Here is a video 

documenting that it has been a whole week since the canal was breached - a 

whole week of water flowing into the ground.