Preparing Mill Creek for installation of our grey water system has become a little bit more complicated than we had initially expected. The first day of digging the hill to place our system brought our hopes up, as things seemed to have gone pretty smoothly. After a few hours of marking out where we needed to dig, figuring out the final dimensions for adjusting our system to fit into the hillside, and clearing out the top layer of earth; we felt that we had made substantial progress on the project. The next couple of dig sessions turned out to uncover lots of hard clay-like dirt that isn’t easily removed conventionally with shovels. A bee attack on Paul and Jared (along with Jade and Johanna) led us to hold off on digging. With the installation taking longer than expected, I figured it’d be best to go ahead with speccing out the system in a 3D scale model so that we know exactly where is system is going and how it fits together.
Here’s an orthographic technical drawing - it is still in progress, but the roughed out version is as follows:
