Hi, everyone.
I tried to take a picture of the sink hole in front of lot 41 but my digital camera went on the fritz. The road is caving in and the front of the lot has already caved in around the electrical box. It's pretty bad and getting worse. I will tell Steve Bennett about it today. There seems to be a water leak in the middle of the road.
We had to call Carl, the guy that set up our park model, to come out and fix a water leak under our trailer last Saturday. We had a hard time finding someone to fix the leak. Everyone we called was out of town for the summer. Carl was a lifesaver. The leak caused us to be without water for a week. Rather than turn the water off to the entire park, we turned it off at our lot and only turned it on for the brief time we used water. The ground under our trailer was completely saturated so that let it dry out and firm up again. Carl had to re-tie our trailer down again.
I was watering Marv & Chris' lot this AM about 5:15 and Ernie came out to talk. As we were talking, a big coyote walked thru his yard and paid us no mind. Ernie says it walks down the street almost every day, but this is the first time I have seen it in the park. The last time I saw it was the day after the rain storm. The coyote was in the wash behind Fred & Sherry's lot. Anyway, Ernie had to have Steve Bennett come out a couple of days ago to fix a bad water leak beside his garage. The leak turned out to be a broken sewer pipe that was broken by a tractor running over it while the park was being built. As they were fixing the pipes, they discovered some other pipes that were never glued together and had come apart. I hope all the leaks and broken pipes are not a sign of things to come. It seems that the infrastructure of the park was pretty shoddily built. It makes me worry about what may happen in the future.
Those of you without water pressure reducers had better get them. The park has pressure that is almost 10 times higher than is recommended for homes. Those of you WITH water pressure regulators had better check and/or replace them. We have had 3 of them go bad this summer. I think all the times the water to the park has been turned on and off has contributed to the failures. Most of the time people turn the water on too quickly and the sudden surge of pressure bursts more pipes and the regulators it seems. We had to replace two of our regulators and one for Steve & Joan. Ernie has had to replace 2 also.
The good news is that there was no erosion to any lots on the east end of the park and very little on the northwest edge of the park. The town works dept. piled several tons of huge boulders in the wash on our side of the wash on Moon Mtn. Ave. It washed out after the last rain and just after they poured cement alongside the road to stop it from washing out. Now it looks like the mud and debris will pile up in the road and dam up behind Mtn. View Park. I don't know what they are thinking but it looks like a pretty stupid thing to have a big rock dam along the pavement blocking the wash. Maybe the next rain will wash away the yellow house on Moon Mtn. That seems to be their plan!?!?
Sure missing everyone!
Harvey & Gail
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