This cargo van arrived yesterday morning. It was Sean who works for J.R. He said he was here to trench along the tennis court so that both ends of the tennis court could be lighted by a single switch instead of two.
He unload a ditch witch and headed toward the tennis court fence. I told him that with all the buried electrical and water lines we have it was almost certain that he would hit one or the other. He said he would stay close to the fence. Within minutes as you can see, an electrical line was torn up. This line feeds the cabana and pool lights. Then a few minutes later my doorbell rang. It was Martin and Sean asking if I knew where to turn off the water. I knew what that meant. I went over to the end of the 700 building and turned off the valve. By this time the tennis court was flooded.
I explained to Martin that there used to be a trench at the corner of the tennis court to drain off the water. Within minutes Sean had his shovel and was reopening the old trench to drain the court. I'm sure he felt badly about making such a mess.
Sean left just after noon. Later another worker arrived to wire the circuit. He was not too happy to see that Sean had buried the conduit without the wire inside. He worked on it a while, but was unable to get the wire through the buried cable. He said it would have been so much simpler to just put a switch on the other end of the court like it used be. I guess this is what the board wanted, but did not know it would be this big of a project. No one came out today to do anymore on the project.
Later Monday the lift station blew out another capacitor. That happens all the time. Either we need to use a 440 working volt capacitor or find why the circuit is exceeding the rated 330 working volts of the capacitors that we now use. J.R. came out and found we had one new one in the electrical compartment and put that one in. The red light is still on. He thinks the high pressure pipe is cracked just above the pump and it may need to be repaired. J.R. will ask some friends who work for the city to come by and check our circuits to see why the capacitors are bursting. J.R. has a lot of friends with expertise in many areas. He is a rich resource.