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Contractor Ted
Brooks finishes troweling the broad-crested-weir stream gauging
structure installed at the hydrologic "pour point' of
the Senator Beck Basin in a small gorge cutting through bedrock.
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Ted admiring his
work as he closes the weir bypass for the first time a few
days after it was poured, and just the day after the first
snowfall of the 2003/2004 season.
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Jerry Roberts and
Denny Hogan hauling mast components to the Senator Beck Study
Plot on a beautiful Indian Summer day in the San Juans.
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Michael Barton,
Chris Landry's right hand man throughout the project.
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Michael
Barton and Michael Barney hauling in two of the 100 60-lb bags
of concrete required from the broad-crested weir and Swamp Angel
Study Plot installations. |
Chris
landry and Denny Hogan hauling more 10 meter tower sections
to the Senator Beck Study Plot. |
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Chris
Landry drilling 1" holes in the exposed bedrock at SBSP
for 1" mounting bolts for the 10 meter tower. |
Raising
the SBSP 10 meter tower with a gin pole and a rope winch. |
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The
SBSP site in operations on November 23, 2003 (photo Ryland Gardner) |
Ted
Brooks and Michael Barton mixing the 95th bag of concrete at
the Swamp Angel Study Plot, by headlamp, near the end of a very
long day. |
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Pouring
the Swamp Angel precipitation gauge base. |
Michael
Barton hanging instruments on the Swamp Angel Study Plot mast,
with Red Mountain #3 in the distance. |
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The
season's first snowfall arrived the morning after programming
and switching on the Swamp Angel Study Plot instrument system,
by headlamp! |
