6 yards of dirt and 10 more on the way

In 2005 the city replaced 5th Street, the street in front of the house; the owner, in one of her thinking moments, had the sewer replaced from the house to the street. The construction company that routinely got street contracts was, and is to this day, notorious for destroying front yards. They left depressions/holes in the front up to 18" deep and 10' across on bothe sides. The front sidewalk was replaced at the same time and has been at a minimum 1" proud of the yard and up to 8" proud and the dirt was erroding underneath. We thought a half load of dirt (6 yards) would be enough for the front and back, but as you see it filled in one side and only a few holes in the back. We called to get another 10 yards today and will work on filling in the other side as well as bringing it all the way up to the foundation to create a slope away to control water drainage.

MLS listing photo from the spring - if you look carefully you can see how high the sidewalk is from the grass

7.2.12 - 6 yards of dirt delivered at 9:30AM

just f few loads and we are starting to see just how deep and wide the depression is

Here you can see the space under the sidewalk.
 Jim was able to get the shovel handle all the way underneath the sidewalk.
 It's amazing it hasn't started to crumble already!

We're not dirty - just HOT.
We were working in 95 degree heat with 80+% humidity and it's only 11AM

Jim was so hot that he literally had sweat dripping
off the brim of his hat as he scooped dirt!

7.3.12 - Jason Baumgartner comes to help! Bless him! At 7:45AM no less!
 He and Jim made short work of the rest of the pile this morning

The depression is not full - Jim had to install a 2' pve pile for the clean-out
 so it didn't get buried under 18" of dirt!

you can see how far out Jim had to spread the dirt

filing in the drpression around the water shut-off

9:15AM and the 6 yards have been moved to 2 depressions
10 more yards coming later today to start on the otherside of the sidewalk