Blog #3 July 29

The rain has been unforgiving for the building crews lately. The pits have been filling with water faster than they can be pumped out. In order to keep continuing progress on the digester tank, the water needed to be pumped out first, delaying the time available to spend cleaning up C Barn. However, progress has made in C Barn over the week. We pumped water into the barn to mix the old dried manure in order to pump it out. The next step involved us wading around in the shin deep liquid manure, mixing, scraping and pumping it out of the barn. We are currently halfway complete with removal of the manure with at least another day left in there.

The days have been long and the weather has been miserable, but sunny days are coming. And with that comes the concrete for the F.O.G. tank to be poured and further construction on the digester tank. As for me, I’ll continue my work in C Barn, cleaning up all the oak floors that were removed to empty the manure. Much of what is being removed from the barn is not going to waste. Parts of the oak floors and planks are to be used in the upcoming Community Garden Project.

That’s all for today’s blog, until next time.