Dad, I dug another hole - it's filling with water

I'm almost finished up 3 months of work at the Northern end of Vancouver Island, BC. My role was the site engineer constructing a new landfill and a massive treatment pond.

Port McNeill was where I was based, this is the view from my house.

There were lots of tree's to clear and swamp to remove before we started


Once the site was clear of vegetation we had a hole lot of earthworks to do. We did some massive reshaping of the landscape.

About half the excavation was made below the water table which gave us quite a challenge. About 5km of sub surface drainage pipe was installed.

Most of the earthworks went off without a hitch, there were of course a few mishaps though...

A little bit of pipe to transport all the nasty water.

The new landfill area was lined with a thick plastic liner then capped with about 1/2 a metre of sand & rock for drainage.


The treatment pond was a similar process, the pond is lined with a thick plastic and now it's filling itself with the winter rain.

Stoaked to be heading back to Vancouver for the winter. We've just moved into a new house - Me, Jacs, Luc and our aussie buddy Gareth. Looking forward to some good winter missions in the next few months thats for sure.