Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Bad Timing

We spent about $500 in equipment rental (Bobcat 335 mini-excavator), $75 in Diesel fuel, and about 30 hours of hard labor this weekend on streambank repair and wetlands restoration. Today it appears much of our work could be underwater within three days! Just another one of our farm projects we'll have to call "an experiment".

Here is the September 6 prediction. Click on the image to see the current forecast.

2 comments:

  1. Jim, I think you lucked out. This AM, forecast level at the Springfield gage is for max of 7.6 feet.

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  2. I hope it stays that way. This morning the actual reading is exceeding the prediction. My work will actually be advantageous up to around 10 feet. At 15 feet I will lose three huge piles of sandy loam soil I was hoping to move elsewhere, and at 19 feet everything will be underwater.

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