Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Groundbreaking Preliminaries

Dzogchen Community members practicing sang rite before the heavy equipment arrives


Hi to everyone

Just a short note on what's happening as of today Tuesday, August 4. The heavy equipment has been moved to the lower parking lot. Gravel will be hauled in tomorrow morning to begin regrading of the road. Once the road is improved, the digging for the Vajra Hall will begin probably in a couple of days.


To prepare the ground, last week the vajra mandala was dismantled.

The turn in the road were the Stupa is located needs to be opened up so we can get concrete trucks and other equipment to the site.









This past Sun. we did some preliminary perc tests along the logging road leading to the knoll, we dug 4 test pits; 2 passed, 2 failed. For a definition of a perc test, click here. Here are a couple of videos of the process:








Perc Test Video, Part 2:





As soon as time permits we will schedule the real test and make it official at which point we will have 4 sites for septic. How we divide this into usage still needs to be determined. For sure, one should be a house for Rinpoche. Again when time permits, we will try another area for perc and see what happens as it would be nice to have at least 6 sites in total. I think that maybe by cold weather the design team can present the community with possibilities of what can happen in this area, then we can see what we wish to do within what is possible.

Joe

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