Our summer disaster + pics

After spending a wonderful long weekend out of the province visiting family my crew and I arrived at our pit to discover this wonderful site... This is a crushing/washing plant. We go through alot of water therefore we need two very large water ponds. One for "clean" water and one for "dirty". Unfortunately, we had new ponds built the previous year because we had to move the entire plant much further away from the pre-existing ponds. The berm that was constructed was not made with suitable material and a large section decided to wash out due to much pressure and a weekend with substantial water fall. This is what happens!! When we arrived our twin screener was leaning soo bad we thought it was going to tip over but LUCKILY it did not. Surprising the frame did not bend. Clean up took approximately 2-3 weeks and an additional week to work out all the kinks. Digging up power cables was probably the worst part of the whole cleanup as it had to mostly be done by hand. Walking in that muck was also an extremely good work out. http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l48/niggs_04/Wash%20plant%20disaster%20summer%2009/