building the new, bigger and better Shabbos House Student Center
| Drywell Installation in Storm-Water Recharge Basin |
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| Foreground: pre-cast concrete base, rim and drywell prepared for installation in the rear of the new Shabbos House property as part of the on-site recharge basin storm-water management plan. | Contractor assists excavator in placing drywell rim in place. The ditch visible here was later filled in with gravel and earth. This July had rain almost every day, which made this operation more complicated. | |
| Updated Plans Posted in PDF | Click here to download updated building plans as of June 2008. Some minor revisions to the plans are in the process of being made, we will post them when they are final. | |
| Storm-Water Delay | It's a catch-22. The storm-water recharge basin was designed to hold and slowly over time dissipate heavy rainfall but can only do so once it is constructed. And it can not be constructed in standing water, due to the exceptionally heavy, consistent rainfall this summer. Pumping it out to tanker-trucks could be ongoing and costly, so our contractor tried waiting it out, hoping the hot, dry summer days would finally arrive. But when they didn't, he applied to the Albany County (who owns Fuller Road / Country Route 156) for a temporary allowance to pump filtered storm-water into the street sewers while they construct the storm-water recharge basin behind the new Shabbos House. As permission was finally granted, construction on the storm-water recharge basin could go ahead. | |