Water assistance program kinda doesn’t make sense

[15444]

What the hell good is digging another dugout
If there is no water to put in it. If there is snow
The old ones will fill won’t need the new one.
Should have been some assistance for hauling
As well as piping. In our area no water
Close enough to pump. If you want to keep
An industry going do what’s needed immediately
Then loon further down rhe road.
Not one person received the so called feed assistance
Yet around here has anyone?

Word I was told by AgriRecovery program worker is that no cheques are going out till program closes Nov 1.

[TSIPP]

Digging is a little slow, extremely dry and dusty hard clay, about a third of the trench is done. I dumped 5 inches out of the rain gage in August, I’m not sure where the moisture went.

[TSIPP]

I’ll try a picture.

[Sodbuster]

We trenched a half mile of pipe last month, was dry to 6’ and wet after that. We were averaging 180’ a hour using a 2’ bucket about 10’ deep.

[TSIPP]

We trenched a half mile of pipe last month, was dry to 6’ and wet after that. We were averaging 180’ a hour using a 2’ bucket about 10’ deep.

The best I can do is about 150 feet an hour and the tough going stuff is about half that, 32 inch bucket and 8 feet deep, probably not to bad for a 43 year old antique.

[sumdumguy]

Narrower bucket prolly better?

[TSIPP]

It probably is, I used an 18 inch bucket on this machine once and I spent more time trying to get the dirt out of the bucket than digging. Being this dry it should come out easier but I’m thinking tomorrow I’ll start hitting stuff with more moisture.

[TSIPP]

I’ve gotten almost all the trenching done, less than 100 feet to go anyway the gravity fed well is running over 20 gallons a minute so I’m pretty happy and I’m sure it will run a bit faster when the all the air gets out of the system, I’m being held up by SaskEnergy, I’ve been trying to get permission from them to cross underneath the 4 inch steel high pressure gas line, it’s been a month now and things are getting pretty frozen, my waterline is running over the gas line and it needs to run under neath it.

I’m wondering if I just phone them and say it’s going in this week with or without you what will happen, supposedly they need to supervise the work.

[Sodbuster]

You could get a directional driller and go well under the NG line.

[TSIPP]

You could get a directional driller and go well under the NG line.

Not yet, I’m actually needing a permit, I got a directional drilling crew out to get under the road, it was in a deep ditch almost 20 feet below the driving surface and while they were here the crew hydrovaced around the gas line, so I might already be in trouble for starting work around the gas line.

I’m not sure what the holdup is, maybe I worry too much but SaskEnergy told me they need to supervise the work and I first need a permit before I start, a month later and still no permit and they don’t want my waterline above the gas line, seems to me they are being d icks , I just think over a month for a digging permit is unrealistic and unreasonable.