[TowerTalk] FW: Concrete Pad for U.S. Tower TX-472

[ve4xt at mymts.net]

I hope to pour in August, but I too have water. If it's only a few inches, is it worth worrying about?

73, Kelly
ve4xt 

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> On Jul 26, 2015, at 13:31, "Patrick Greenlee" <patrick_g at windstream.net> wrote:
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> My next tower install is coming late this summer or early fall (depending on when the tower is built/shipped.  I fully expect the hole 4x4x8 ft to at least partially fill up from ground water if I don't take precautions.  Even during the recent record setting drought I had ground water within 5 ft of the surface but this is NOT a drought year.
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> Boat launching ramps are poured into forms fully submerged as concrete easily displaces the water without being "watered down." My concern is that the walls of the hole, if significantly soaked, may collapse. So I may put a sump pump in the hole with a float switch to keep the water pumped down to a couple inches.  I'll build a little cubical wood frame and cover it with geotextile to filter out solids and not let the pump clog.
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> Patrick     NJ5G
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>> On 7/25/2015 11:14 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
>> I had no problem keeping it wet.  The spring water table was just a couple inches below the surface. We kept a sump pump running until the concrete was being poured into the hole.   It was a good dry mix relatively speaking, yet when the concrete reached the top, it was pushing out water.
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>> As I was breaking up the over flow a couple weeks later, someone asked, "Wouldn't it be easier to just paint it green?"  The dirt under the hardened overflow was still soggy.  So other than sprinkling the surface, keeping it wet was not a problem<:-)
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>> 73
>> 
>> Roger (K8RI)
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