Friday, June 3, 2011

Its June already?

We were really blessed this week to have NO rain whatsoever! Contractors were chomping at the bit to get to work earlier this week to take advantage of the weather. It has been hot but its also been dry. Forecast is calling for good weather for the next few weeks, we will see!

Main entrance

Nature's landscaping around electrical switch box, some sort of thistle. Most likely Canadian Thistle. Whatever it is, it needs to go even though the purple flowers are kind of neat...

Foundations for baseball pavilion

Shots from on top of "Mt Etown"

Work in the park HQ/Maintenance compound
Can I move in yet?

Foundation for Championship Fields Pavilion

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

SmartTurf Blog

I would like to mention a blog by a good friend and mentor, Jamie Mehringer, President of J&D Turf in Indianapolis.

Smart Turf

Jamie visits sports fields all over the region and keeps up a blog about his visits and some of the work his company is involved in. He offers some great insight into the sports turf management and other turf related topics. Check it out for some photos of other venues, projects, and great information...

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Moving forward - Foundations!

We work in between rains and sometimes in it!



Main Entrance wall

Miracle Field concessions ready to go!

Entrance




Championship Fields Pavilion

Baseball Fields Pavilion


Baseball Quad foundation rebar

Mt. Etown...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Rainy Days

Okay so in the past 7 days we've had almost 9 inches of rain, over 3.5" of it in the last 24 hours. Needless to say not a lot of work has been done lately. Here are some pics of the flooding from Billy Creek that we are dealing with at the Sports Park!

View from bridge on St Johns Road

Flooded field across the road from park

Look across soccer field towards creek, St Johns Rd on left

New water feature


Billy Creek washed out bank and spilling into retention pond. White water rafting anyone?

Overlooking detention areas overflowing with creek. I'm standing on wind-rowed topsoil that is acting as berm holding back water. This would be soccer field #4 and/or #5.

Without this berm, rest of field would be underwater...

Looking South over fields 4,5, & 6

South end of Field 6, retention area

retention area, its probably almost 10ft deep in the deepest spot here?

Lower end of Soccer fields, mostly underwater

The locals really love their basketball...

Other side of lower fields looking back towards creek


Creek that runs through middle of park, usually just a trickle...

End of King Arthur's Ct., baseball parking retaining wall behind. This is the stream that's usually a trickle.

Wetlands pond next to main entrance on West Park Rd. Creek flooding overtook berm.

Billy Creek running under new bridge on West Park Rd.

Billy Creek on other side of new bridge

Flooding at Mike Carroll Soccer Complex on Peterson Dr.

When I mentioned at the beginning of the post that not much work has been done lately, some crews have been able to work in baseball between rains and get some things accomplished. Some foundations, electrical, and plumbing for example.








Friday, April 15, 2011

First building foundation


They were able to pour the footers for the baseball pavilion yesterday then they were rained out today. Its a start anyway!


View from the top!