Driveway Restored

After two months we are finally able to use our driveway and park in the garages again. It seems like forever since we could do this and it was a big inconvenience having to park on the north end of the house and walk back across the property, over the dry creek and up to the door when we came back from grocery shopping. Don't even talk about the trek with 40 lb cases of chicken.

The town inspected the well field and gave approval. So the trenches have been filled in, the soil compacted and leveled, and gravel brought in to make everything normal again. We decided it made sense to utilize the services of the excavating company while they were here, and we had them trench the drainage culvert the remaining length of the front yard. We had them install a 12 inch culvert pipe at the point where we were parking during construction so there will be proper drainage across the entire frontage but we can still drive across and park there if needed. It also is a path to the back gate for deliveries to the back yard.

Next steps are to line the culvert with rock and to spread gravel in the orchard area we finished a month or so back. I'll post photos of the orchard and walk path project when it is completed with the gravel in a week or so.

The drainage culvert and new culvert pipe


Driveway area re-graveled


View towards the detached garage


View from the road to the house, solar trackers visible