We are constructing two headwalls over the ends of two 48" steel
culverts in Mt. Sidney.  The structure will be two steel reinforced
concrete walls veneered in stone. November-December 2009
We struck multiple springs, damned up and piped the stream flow thru
the work area and footer construction began.  Mark and Brian slogging
it out in the mud.
Left, Phil and Mark
ripping whalers out
of southern yellow
pine 2X8's, with
footer in place .





Right footer form
ready for concrete.  
Notice footing
follows curvature of  
the road way.
Staunton, Virginia
Day three, footing
forms ready to be
stripped.  Left Brian
negotiating a spring,
mud and rock strata
to get our next set of
forms in place.  
Messy Wednesday ,
had to run
dewatering pump all
day.  Where did all
the mud come from?
Days 4,5,6 we formed up the
West wall, tied the steel and
received a change order to
extend the wall 4 feet.  The
extended footing was in solid
rock.  No problem.  Our dam
keeps leaking so Mark
dewaters the excavation
regularly.
The west wall is in place and backfilled with 4inch block steps laid
to start our stonework at the grade of the topsoil.  We are now
installing the footing for the east wall.  We have encountered a
rock shelf that has to be jack hammered away.  A spring with a
flow rate of approximately 20 gallons a minute needs constant de
watering with a pump to keep the work site from flooding.
We hammered on the rock for most of the day and then stepped our
form over it.  Quite the soggy cold day.  It is a race against the
weather now.  We beefed up the footer steel, since the bearing was
soft in places.  
Monday snow, Friday 11 degrees.  We
got the footing in place and started
forming the wall. One half of the steel
is in.  Next week more steel, button it
up and place, then strip and backfill.
We'll skip rock
ready.  We are
using
sandstone from
NC set in an
We'll skip
ashlar pattern,
We will break
some of it into 4
and 5 inch  
rectangles to
sunburst the
culvert
openings.  It will
look great.