The Hill at Whitemarsh

Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County

As construction of the senior living community continues to progress, residents of Lafayette Hill, PA will begin to see 96 acres of rolling hills come to life into a retirement community unlike anything in the area. A 12-acre preserved woodland surrounds the Hill at Whitemarsh.

The community is expected to open early in 2007.

The Hill at Whitemarsh

Challenge

Solution

P. DiMarco & Co was requested to work with an aggressive schedule to prepare the 96-acre site for the building of 266 apartment homes, cottages and villas.

P. DiMarco was also contracted to minimize inconvenience to local residences while connecting an 8-inch sanitary line to an existing line in a near-by cul-de-sac with over 300 linear feet of adjacent private property in between.

Unknown at the time of project bidding and several months into the job, a third challenge arose, as P. DiMarco was asked to remediate debris from a trash pit.
  P. DiMarco excavated over 300,000 cubic yards of dirt preparing the site for building a full two months ahead of schedule.

In a 'can't go over it, can't go around it' scenario, P. DiMarco went under it. The P. DiMarco & Co. crew first dug 28 feet below ground, secured the pit, then sub-contracted to bore approximately 330 feet under a private land installing a 30-inch diameter steel sleeve with little service interruption or inconvenience. An 8-inch sanitary pipe was run though the sleeve connecting to the existing line in the adjacent cul-de-sac.

In the end, P. DiMarco screened in excess of 35,000 cubic yards of material. The trash was hauled to a certified landfill. The 'cleaned' soil was available for reuse and used during site work on the job site.


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