The view of our beautiful valley.
Construction beginning on the new town Water tank.
Above Joliet in the Winter
Along with the new water tank, the road to it needed to be reinforced and overhauled to support the heavy equipment bringing cement and supplies to the site.
A cool morning at the Sewer lagoons makes for a pretty scene.
If you look close you can see geese with their goslings at the sewer lagoon.
Installation of a water line.
Have you ever wondered what your sewer pipe looked like under the ground with the cleanout?
Every House in Joliet is being upgraded to radio read meters which will save time every month when they are read. Sometimes this is a chore when they aren't very accessible.
When the State Street well was rehabilitated it needed 1000 gallons of acid pumped underground to remove scale. This is the mixing tank.
While excavating for hookups, the public works crew found a buried Cleanout pile from the steam locomotives that used to run over Railway Ave complete with coal chunks and "clinkers" pulled out of the locomotives' fireboxes.
Old railroad "Clinkers": dug out during excavation. A clinker is a hard, often glassy, deposit that forms in a steam locomotive's firebox
Rehabilitation of the State Street Water Well. The well was filled with acid to break apart deposits. Then it was "brushed with a rigid polymer brush to remove scaling and finally was "air bursted" which requires high pressure air to be suddenly expelled underground to blow off remaining deposits to increase well production.
For those who question the use of the public works department. Yes, that is sewage that Charlie is boating across to remove "debris" that has wrapped around the propeller of an aerator which helps break down waste. Yes, it is also done with hands (gloved hands that is).