The street has been flagged for the past month with the rainbow of colors that indicate where all the underground utilties lay. A drilling company came and drilled a bunch of soil samples. Not surpising, every one of them turned up only sand. The entire neighborhood is nothing but sand. Before the ice age, the Mississippi River ran thru here. Now it's 200 feet of sand that filled in the old river channel.
The thinking is that hopefully the storm sewer in the alley will be re-routed so that it doesn't free up in the winter. As it is, it's not deep enough and it freezes up. Any snowmelt then pools and freezes into a rutted iceberg. Fingers crossed that there won't be a $20k assessment for everyone on the alley.
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