Big Hollow


	Greene County Soil & Water Conservation District Stream Management Program Batavia Kill Stream Management Pilot Project Big Hollow Stream Restoration Project


	Construction activities on the Big Hollow Stream Restoration Project were finally started on August 13, 2001. The project involves full restoration of over 1 mile of stream, and will take several months to complete. The following pictures are of the work in progress, check back often to see the project as it progresses.


	D5 Dozer filling old remnant stream channel at lower end of the project reach


	D8H & Cat Pan excavating borrow fill from Pond Site #2 channel


	Two Terex off-road dump trucks and two Caterpillar pans are being used to haul the estimated 35,000 yards of material required to elevate the stream channel to reconnect with its floodplain


	Excavation of pond site #1, material is being used for floodplain fill


	D8 & Cat pan being used to cut the new channel meander through a wooded area.


	Constructing a rock-vane just above Peck Road Bridge


	Excavation of pond site #2 by excavator and off-road dump truck


	Soil & Water Staff performing layout of stream channel and rock structures


	Cutting a road off the face of an eroded terrace to reach borrow area


	Excavator w/Thumb placing rock structures at lower end of the project


	Dozer/Pan & Excavator w/ off-road dumps used to move material from borrow area


	Pan traveling up haul road constructed on the face of the steep terrace


	Pan traveling haul road constructed on the face of the steep terrace, looking down slope


	Pan being used to excavate new channel planform as it passes through the woods


	GCSWCD Staff laying out Rock Vane for construction


	Delivery of large rock for Rock and Cross Vanes. Loads 35-45 tons each


	Completed Rock Vane with scour hole excavated downstream


	Work proceeds on lower Cross Vane near Peck Road bridge


	Excavator working on Rock Vane just upstream from Peck Road Bridge


	Using Cat D8K to cut new stream channel


	For Additional Information Contact Rene' VanSchaack, Executive Director Joel DuBois,Stream Program Leader


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