This past year was so wet with continued rains that some of the beautifully contoured landscaping that Tim did for us was starting to look a little worse for wear. The sides of the driveway were eroding away leaving huge crevasses that could swallow a bug (VW that is). When he originally built the driveway, Tim installed a culvert to keep the water from ending up in the shop or under our house. The culvert feeds water under the driveway and empties to a ditch at the side of the shop. It was causing quite a bit of erosion as well. Despite our best efforts, Mother nature always wins. So we had the big guns come with their heavy equipment and fix the problem. They regraded the areas, put down rip-rap rock and seeded/matted the raw dirt. Parts of the driveway that needed more gravel got a top dressing. It is amazingly different. I will try to walk you thru the pictures.
New topcoat of road bond for the driveway and the first day of re-grading the sides of the driveway.
The top side of the culvert where the water enters.
Re-grading the exit side of the culvert. He put down weed barrier for the rock to sit on.
Finished product: This looks down the back side of the shop. Our house is to our backs.
Standing by the opposite side of the shop. The drain pipe and shop gutter now empties into this amazing pile of rock.
All the "tan" stuff is the matting that stabilizes the regraded earth until the seed/fertilizer can become established.
These pictures really don't do it justice. We are just amazed and thrilled with the results. Now if we can just have some gentle rains to help the seed to germinate but not wash away. It will really look nice when it is all green and established.
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