Oops....We forgot something

     Still not to much to report as far as the building goes.  The dirt is still there,  a bit colder now that we had a dusting of snow.  We realized that we never put a map to show were the MPB site is on campus.  That could be helpful to some of you who are not as familiar with camp as those of us who live here. So here you go.

Our Campus Map

This is our map we give to guests and that we have up on the website.  As you are looking at the picture, the direction of  Lake Pleasant road (and the town of Hillsdale) is to the left.  To the right would be the town of Osseo and eventually 127. This map isn't really to scale.  But I hope you can get an idea of where the new building is going to be.  

    Our maintenance crew also finished running the water supply line last week.   We still haven't turned on the new well, but it's almost all ready to fire up.  Here's a picture of the location of the water supply going into the building.   

     The water supply line is the pipe sticking out of the ground.  Nothing too exciting, but come the begining of the new year we hope things will start to pick up.  

Diggin' Those Holes.

   We haven't done to much at the site of the new building but we have been doing quite a bit to bring water to the site.  There was the hole we dug in the last post that was used to connect our newest well to the water system.  That's all done and awaiting control boards to run the two different wells in Tandem.  For now,  it's just the same old well we've had for years running things.

   To get the water from the pump room, which is in the Chalet, we decided to use a line that supplies all of our staff housing on the west side of Campus that is already ran pretty close to the new building site.  Here's a picture of the tie in piont and the plumbing that will lead to the new MPB.

The grey pipes are the new plumbing for the MPB.  The pipes it ties into are under the dirt already but you can see the metal 'risers' that allow us to shut off the valves if we need to.  For orientation,  Jeff's house (the one in the previous pictures) is to the left through the pine trees.  

       From the valves we pass through the pine trees and into Jeff's yard.

We're looking straight at where the valves are, just past the pine trees.  

 From the valves we travel all the way through Jeff's yard and towards the MPB site.  Here's a picture of Jeff's yard.

This is Jeff's yard.  Sorry Jeff for the mess!  You can see the MPB building site in the distance.  You can also see a few of our maintenance crew cutting the road surface so we can cross the road with the pipes.  I think I remember the distance being 1500 ft of trench.  That's alot of pipe!


By the end of the day we hope to have the water supply runs in place.  I was also informed that the building structure will not be here untill January 3.  Until then, We'll be putting in foundations. 

Couple bread crumbs....

      Not to much 'new' information about the building.  The metal structure part of the building should be arriving pretty soon!  Dave,  our general contractor,  said it should be with in 2 weeks.  Maybe.    Before that our goal is to set the foundation in place so we can put up the building as soon as it arrives.  We're hoping, and praying,  we can avoid to many cold nights and snow before then.