I mobed down there today and waited a while for sleeve pipe to get delivered.
The site crew had exed out the pool area, and they had a couple of trench drains and sumps to dig in the bottom of it. We had pipe to put between those sumps and trench out, so what they were doing was going to be the holdup.
They were hard way jonesing it down there with a 305.5 with a moldboard on the bucket, in that hard glacial till.
:facepalm:
I suggested that I rough it out with my new tiger teeth on the 120, and we traded places. He dug the sleeves in for the plumbers in the imported bank run.
It got them done much quicker and out of our way.
I'll be about 2' below the floor of the pond then we'll trench into that bank about 10' to get outside the footings. That puts the trench 7' down, and I am picking up an 8x12 aluminum box to get that done.
The site is really saturated fill above that floor and would not stand up, nor do I want to blow it out wide and then try to get any compaction on it.