Watery Holes

In order to secure the site, we have to construct the perimeter hoarding. In this case the hoarding required were of 20mm thick marine plywood. But look at the footing, a chunk of 450 x 450 x 350 mass concrete!! Designed to withstand windspeed up to 160km/h - more like a sandstorm to me. Well since the site is in a former desert only a few years back.

The pics below is another unexpected occurrence. We hit a water pothole at a corner only after digging a few feet down. The water is cooling but the source is baffling. We were given the field data indicating water table at minus 3.5 meter.
A few hours later the answer came in a form of few green men (literally!) These were the guys from the Municipality, ever ready to give us tickets for minor transgression in disturbing greenery around town such as unplugging the grass, uprooting trees, and as in our case, hitting their irrigation pipes.
Blame it on the workers who keep digging in the hot sun.