The quality of work by city contractor

Back July 30th, on the post titled Water / sewer service day 2, I indicated that city contractor filled a huge amount of concrete into the trench they dug. I like to elaborate a bit on this. City contractor excavated two trenches and dug up a big pile of soil for the sewer connection and a smaller trench for the water service connection. They used their dump truck to truck the soil away. By the time they back fill the trench, they didn’t have enough to back fill. Look at the picture below, you can see the sewer trench on the far left. That’s how much they back filled. There’s more than 1 meter of trenches not back filled and at places even more. Then they dump a huge load of concrete into that trench. Now in my drive way, there’s concrete over 1 meter thick. I can’t image this is the proper way to do this. How are you supposed to fix thing later one if you want to fix things down there?

For the water service line trench, they just shoved the dirt in, there’s no attempt to compact the back fill what so ever. So a few days later two thunderstorm passes by and right here a sink hole developed right next to the sidewalk. Later this sink hole collapsed even more including partially underneath the sidewalk. Again I can’t imagine this is the proper way to do this.

So OJCR Construction Ltd, enjoy your city contracts, because you surely are not making the grade here in my world.