Cavers had a work day at Honey Creek Cave property on June 6th and 16 volunteers showed up to work on making preliminary road repairs. The old ranch road has about 6” to 1’ berm along both sides of most of the ½ mile ranch road from the highway to the cave shaft. Heavy rains, bound by the berms, cause the road to become a river so, during our January 2014 thank haul trips to Honey Creek Cave, we began making plans to divert water from the road.
On June 6th, Kurt Menking had a tractor out to dig several sections of trenches through the berms and cavers continued the work with picks, shovels and rocks bars. The day was very hot and we were glad to have segments of shade while we worked. The preliminary work of beginning the trenches is done and we eagerly await the next rain to see if the trenching was effective. We will continue to have work days out at Honey Creek to continue road repairs and assist the landowner with tasks. Thank you to the following volunteers who assisted this weekend. 1. Kurt Menking 2. Ellie Falgout 3. Guin McDaid 4. Bennett Lee 5. Pam Campbell 6. Amy Morton 7. Tom Rogers 8. Jean Krejca 9. Aaron Wertheim 10. Kim Freund 11. Tim Ramon 12. Richard L. Silver 13. Rob Bissett 14. Rich Zarria 15. Andy Zarria 16. Jill Orr
_______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
