How to Prepare for Rain on your Construction Landscaping site.

What we got here is we've got a slope and we've got to get this all set to laying down. We got torrential rains coming with flash flood warnings and we're prepping this site so that when we come back in a few days, we can instantly come back and get back to work right away. What you're going to see happening behind me is he's actually compacting this slope. That is a critical element. If for some reason you leave a slope with loose soil like this, what happens is that water as it comes down, it soaks into the ground. It create and the the soil itself captures the water and then it soaks it in creating a mud bath. What you want to do is you want to compact and smooth every surface as much as possible. So what we're doing is we're flat topping. That's what we're calling this. Imagine if you have a pile of soil and it's rough. What you do is you come in and you dome it, smooth it, and you flat top it. You pack that top. Then when the water falls down, it's going to hit, ricochet, and it's going to cascade down the side. If your site is rough, it's going to hit, it's going to get stuck in these ruts, and it's going to soak into your pile of dirt, saturating the entire site, making it unworkable for an even longer amount of time. So, what you see him doing in the background is a simple way of protecting a sight. You also see the skid steer working right now. What the skid steer is doing is using its bucket instead of in a flat position. It's tipping it up and it's going into the sight and it's taking that sight and it's compressing the soil. So, it's compacting the sides. [Music] Then we're going to be adding erosion control at the toe of the slope right down here. All through here, we're going to have erosion control measures going in place so that any loose soil doesn't go into this parking lot that's right behind me, which will work its way into the storm sewer system. It's some simple preventive measures which gets you back to work that much faster and helps your site be prepared.