Wondering why the giant pile of dirt at the Maple Leaf Reservoir is changing color? It’s growing grass.
The contractor has hydroseeded the dirt. “It’s for erosion control – in winter months it helps see that dirt doesn’t get washed down to the bottom,” said Stephanie Murphy, project manager for Seattle Public Utilities. “In summer months it keeps the dust down.”
The dirt pile, now up to the neighbors’ second- or third-floor windows, will start to shrink next March when the contractor begins back-filling the giant hole. The pile was built from west to east, and will be slowly removed from east to west.
The project is on track to be completed in the first quarter of 2012, Murphy said. Then construction of the park will begin.
Tricky folk, us bloggers.
Headline had me believing the actual grass was two stories tall, not the hill it’s on. Boo-ums.