Charlie is drilling holes for re-bar and Carl Redensky is cutting and hammering it in.\u00a0 Midwest Pumping is blowing the concrete onto the old dam.\u00a0 You can see pipes coming out of the dam.\u00a0 We couldn’t get the water completely stopped so I started sticking the pipes into the holes and putting handfuls of concrete around them.\u00a0 I would hold it there until it was solid enough and then I would grab another handful of concrete.\u00a0 They told me they couldn’t put concrete on top of moving water.\u00a0 I told em to keep spraying because one way or another I was going to stop or divert the water.\u00a0 Above the dam you can see metal and plastic.\u00a0 I hired a crew to stop the water from going through the dam.\u00a0 They slowed it down but could not stop it.\u00a0 The old dam sits on a sandstone shelf and water was coming through the sandstone.<\/p>\n

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