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There is no joy in Mudville, also known as Orange Park, FL, this year. We were told last year that this past winter, the county was starting a project to replace all the underground utility cabling in our neighborhood. Why? I have no idea as we had been there for four years and never experienced any problems. We were told the effort would be done by August 2015 at the latest. Well, like most government projects, this one started late and is a mess.
For this project, the crews are pretty much digging up the leading 10-12 feet of everyone's front yard. We live on a large corner lot, and we hoped they would tear up the side facing the front of the house, do their thing, restore the yard, and then do the next street and our side yard, but nope... they ripped up the front yard and went right on around the corner, leaving a trail of extremely fine and soft dirt/sand in their path.
I was working on my Roadrunner this weekend, and heard my neighbor scream for help. She had been walking to her car and sunk into the soft dirt almost to her knees. She's in her 70s, and I had to go and literally pull her up and out of the holes, and her shoes were stuck 20" into the ground. Then I sunk in as well on Monday when I tried to cross the supposedly safe path the workers made for us to get to and from the street.
We were hoping they might get done with some part of our yard by Halloween, but they still haven't started restoring yards at the other end of the street yet, and it took three months for them to get the other side of the street done.
For this project, the crews are pretty much digging up the leading 10-12 feet of everyone's front yard. We live on a large corner lot, and we hoped they would tear up the side facing the front of the house, do their thing, restore the yard, and then do the next street and our side yard, but nope... they ripped up the front yard and went right on around the corner, leaving a trail of extremely fine and soft dirt/sand in their path.
I was working on my Roadrunner this weekend, and heard my neighbor scream for help. She had been walking to her car and sunk into the soft dirt almost to her knees. She's in her 70s, and I had to go and literally pull her up and out of the holes, and her shoes were stuck 20" into the ground. Then I sunk in as well on Monday when I tried to cross the supposedly safe path the workers made for us to get to and from the street.
We were hoping they might get done with some part of our yard by Halloween, but they still haven't started restoring yards at the other end of the street yet, and it took three months for them to get the other side of the street done.