Chapter 94 Road Construction Continues

On the previous day that Landon had supervised the military exam, the construction workers had continued on marking the roads, and had also marked each residential home on the blocks.

Today was dedicated towards excavating the marked roads, digging up space for rainwater drainage, water supply, central heating, and sewage pipes.

If rainwater or melted snow wasn’t drained, the roads and sidewalk pavements would become flooded.

When that happened, the pavement grade would definitely decrease. As well as the lifespan of the pavement.

The central heating pipeline on the other hand, ensured that all buildings and houses were properly heated during the winter. It would also provide ventilation and air conditioning, to all buildings within Baymard.

All 4 pipelines: Rain, sewage, clean water, and Central heating, would be placed under the roads.

Underneath the left lane of the road would be the sewer pipeline, as well as the water supply pipeline.

And below the right lane of the road would be the rainwater drainage pipeline.

As for the central heating pipeline, it would be placed underneath the center of the road.

Just like how it was done back on earth, all 4 pipelines were placed underneath the road and buried at different depths.

In the case of a single lane road, all pipelines would still be placed underground... But their pipe sizes would be much smaller compared to that of a 2, or even a 6 lane road.

For rainwater drainage, the sidewalks along the roads would have what was usually called a ’catch basin’.

These basins would be placed periodically on both sides of the road, underneath the sidewalks.

Every after a certain distance, a catch basin would be seen draining the water away from the roads.

Their job was to gather all the water on the sides of the road, and pipe it to the main pipeline directly underneath the roads.

All street rainwater pipelines, would lead to all highway pipelines, and travel down towards the coastal region.... particularly District K.

At this point, Landon had realised that he needed to build a mini-estate that would focus on filtering out dirt from the water before it went to the ocean.

Roadside water drains could sometimes catch cans, plastic wraps, banana peelings, oil spills from cars, coins and so on.

With all this happening, the ecosystem and marine life had to be protected..... Plus he didn’t want all those bottles, plastic wraps and cans to wash up the shores of Baymard.

It was just not beach sexy.

Hence before the water went into the ocean, it needed to pass through a filtering plant.

District K was a great location for the filtration plant. It was between District J (Beach resorts), and District L (Navy and other armed forces).

Who would like to turn up to a beach resort that had bottles and cans floating in the ocean?

On the other hand, the Sewage pipelines would also be directly underneath the left lane of all roads.

Sewage was a tricky one.

90% of sewage systems worked with the help of gravity.

The tar on the road would only take a day at most to dry, so while it was drying... the men did the sidewalks.

And once it was finally dried, road marking heavy machines were used to paint the roads.

The white painted lines usually differentiated each lane, bicycle paths, traffic lines, pedestrian crossing lines, and so on.

When everything was done, Landon could finally close his lessons on road construction.

Of course he had made up his mind that at least 2 days a week, he would come over to assist them..... As well as check up on their work.

Before Landon left, he divided the men into 2 main groups.

The 1st group would continue working on the residential roads within District E.... While group 2 would start installing the main highway pipelines, and connecting them to the coastal or lower regions.

Unlike the others, the main highway pipelines were not going to be placed beneath any highway road.

They would be placed at the sides, hence the men didn’t need to necessary touch the roads.

They just had to place the pipes alongside all highway roads, and connect them to the coastal region, or the plants in the lower region.... depending on what pipeline it was.

On the city plan, there were 3 main highway roads within the district..... Two had 3 lanes, while the last one had 6 lanes.

Landon needed the men to start working on those pipelines now....

At the end of the day... even if house or road construction within the District was done, if these pipelines weren’t connected to the coastal or lower regions yet, then nothing would be supplied or drained.

No clean water, no heating, no sewage drainage, no rainwater drainage....nothing!!

Landon really wanted to get things done before it started snowing.

In Baymard... Snow usually started in the early days of December, and sometimes in the later days of November.

Landon’s plan was to get the original Baymard citizens all housed up before then.

And at that time, all these features needed to be fully installed and working within in their homes.

Right now, Landon really wanted to finish this housing mission... but he also knew that Baymard’s housing plans couldn’t be rushed either.

For the system’s mission to be completed, he needed to successfully house all the original Citizens of Baymard..... sigh.....

Long story short... Time was money, and he needed the citizens to be safe for the winter.

Hence, those pipelines needed to be installed A.S.A.P.

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While Landon jumped from one industry to the other, the royals and nobles in the Capital were perplexed over the lateness of one particular noble.

Everyone just had one question in mind.....

Where the hell was City lord Shannon?