A Bump in the Road (Literally)

When you dig in the dirt, you never know what you will find. As soon as we started excavation for the elevator shaft, we hit stone - every developer's nightmare. There was no way to know how big the stone was, or how difficult it would be to remove. In our case we were lucky and were able to remove most of the stone without too much difficulty. However, as we made our way to the far end of the pit, we uncovered an old shaft filled with a dark murky liquid. This could have been a nightmare. Had we unearthed a sunken oil pit? We immediately called in experts. After much testing they let us know that it was merely dirty water and we were back on track. The back-hoe worked furiously removing loads and loads of dirt until we had quite an impressive sand castle in our back lot. Disposing of this dirt became quite a feat as it turned out to have a high clay content and needed to be disposed of in a particularly careful way. Removal of this pile of dirt took almost a month and cost us over $14,000!