Giant wash out
The person in charge of removing the old buildings and leaving the area looking like native California grass land was Jim Killian of JK Maintenance. He is an artist with a bulldozer! Jim also did an unbelievable job on a huge wash out that was working it’s way up the center of the property and would eventually ruin an entire grassland/pasture area.
He first pulled back the top soil, then reformed the hillside, and then replaced the topsoil. Unfortunately I did not have the foresight to take good pictures of the washout….it was not something to show off. Above are two photos that I found. (click on photos for larger view!) What these photos don’t show is how deep this eroded area was. It was at least 20 ft. deep!
The next photo was taken from the ridge top, after the washout was fixed, but before it was seeded with native oat grass and irrigated. (wash out is the gray area near the center of the photo)
The last two photos show the grass growing and after a rainy season everything stayed in place. The last photo shows the down hill part of the same wash out that still needs to be fixed.
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By Lola, June 10, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
Are you developing all of your property or will you leave some areas “wild?”
Lolita
By Diana, June 24, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
Most of the property will be left in the native vegitation. Lots of Oaks and grassland! We will develope about 10% of the property with horse pastures and horse facilities and homes.
Thanks for your question
Diana