Settles Point-Steps Completed

The steps turned out well. Actually more of a series of landings that conform to the grade-and curved due to the gate placement. New driveway/parking pad will be poured right up to the top timber.

Settles Point-Drain Pits & Steps

On Saturday my son helped me dig some pits in the back yard which were then lined with jute erosion fabric and surge stone-then we dug trenches from the pits to the creek and filled them with surge stone as well. The reason we were doing all of this is that one corner of the back yard filled with water every time it rained-the privacy fence would get silt built up around it's base and act as a dam. The pits are designed to collect the excess water and give it a place to drain under the fence then into the creek. We had heavy rain on Sunday and it seems to have worked like a charm. Yesterday and this morning were very wet from that Sunday rain, so I didn't get back out until this afternoon-and I started the structure for the steps that will provide easier access to the back yard. The treads will be filled with pea gravel.