1-16-08 Cleared for the Tent for Groundbreaking
1-16-08 The tree cutting machine
1-17-08 Tree Cutter
1-17-08 Tree Cutting machine
1-17-08 Loading Cut Trees
1-24-2008 Mulching Machine
1-24-2008 Mulching machine and tractor helper
1-24-2008 Grading
1-24-2008 In front of Plantation Pines Road
1-24-2008 The General Contractor and the Site Work contractor
1-24-2008 The big mulching machine
1-24-2008 Look at the pile of Mulch
1-24-2008 Tree branches waiting to be mulched
1-24-2008 The Preserves on one side and a pile of tree cuttings on the other
The building site is cleared quite a bit 1/24/2008
1-25-2008 Mulching machine at work
1-25-2008 The tractor is feeding the Wood Hog
1-25-2008 This was our garden Temple area
1-25-2008 Roots are gathered for mulching
1-29-2008 Fill is arriving
1-29-2008 The garden Temple area is looking tidier
Started unloading Fill and spreading it 1/30/2008
2-1-2008 Our Garden Temple
2-1-2008 Grading
2-1-2008
2-1-2008 Access Point
2-1-2008 Fill for Building Pad
2-1-2008 Graded_N_Filled
2-1-2008 North side parking area
2-1-2008 Access Rd to Planatation Rd
2-5-08 Fill for Access Road
2-5-08 The Sign is up
2-5-08 AccessRdToPlantationRd
2-5-08 View1FromPlantationRD
2-5-08 ViewFromPlantationPinesRD
2-5-08 View2FromPlantationPinesRD
2-5-08 View2FromPlantationRD
2-11-08 Ready for Utility Work
2-12-2008 Culvert being installed for the access road from Plantation Road
2-12-08 Cables inside this cylinderical box
2-13-08 Rainy Day
2-15-2008 It is all about drainage
2-15-2008 Building pad on the right, parking lot on the left
2-15-2008 Cleared area towards Emerald Pines
2-15-2008 Cleared area towards SE
3-3-08 Sewage pipes being installed
3-3-08 View of the building pad from east side
3-6-08 Underground sewage work is done; now awaiting County inspection
3-6-08 Lift Station (sewage) work finished. That green pipe sticking out is to measure the pressure during inspection
3-6-08 Water pipes have been laid. Connection to city water has to go across silver & lewis lane. The county will replant the cypress tree (protected species) before doing the connection
3-6-08 The Cypress Tree in question
3/11/2008 The Utilities work is getting complete this week
3/11/2008 The Utilities work is getting complete this week. There was an accident on Planatation Road, not connected with the construction work
3/11/2008 The Utilities work is getting complete this week - one of the supply lines to a future building, capped off.
3/11/2008 This is where a cyprus tree, along Plantation Road, had to be removed in order to make a connection with the water main.
3/11/2008 The cypress tree is gone
3/11/2008 View from the southeast corner of the site. The blue-roofed building is the Celebration church
3/11/2008 Southeast corner of the site. Some filling done here, perhaps to bury some drainage pipes.
3/11/2008 The pond in the southeast corner is still there.
3/11/2008 FPL easement area as seen from Silver & Lewis lane - No kite flying please, Caution Overhead Power Lines
3/11/2008 West side of the site as seen from Silver & lewis lane
3/11/2008 View of S&L lane, a home in Emerald Pines, and the power pole carrying power to Silver & lewis.
3/11/2008. No we did not strike OIL, just rain water from last 2 days.
3/11/2008 - More utility connections
3/11/2008 - Pressure Testing?
3/11/2008 Potable water connection to the building pad?
3/11/2008 water connection
3/11/2008 Two preserve areas south of our garden temple - we have enough pine trees to enjoy, under the Florida blue sky
3/12/2008 Connecting water supply
3/12/2008 Connecting water supply - cutting the Silver & lewis Lane, to put the pipe through
3/12/2008 Connecting water supply - cutting the Silver & lewis Lane, to put the pipe through, using a concrete saw
3/12/2008 Connecting to water main. One branch goes to Emerald Pines, the other to Hindu Temple
3/12/2008 Connecting to water main. By 4 pm, Silver & Lewis lane is patched up.
3/12/2008 By 4 pm the ground is leveled
3/13/2008 Water pipe installation for Fire Protection
3/13/2008 Water main connection going across Silver & lewis Lane
3/13/2008 Water main connection going across Silver & lewis Lane - it is all covered up
3/13/2008 Southeast corner of Temple site