The shed is a go. The state essentially told me that if another dump truck pulls into my property, they will bring the Army Corps of Engineers in with Excavators and remove everything I did and bill me a couple million $$.
We got shut down in the late spring this year as some idiot called me and 5 others doing fill work in to the EPA. Once they came and saw that in the bottom of the ravine there is a "creek" (water run off caldron from road run off) that flows equal to or greater than 3 times a year.... I was done at that point.
So we have to go buy 400' of 12" erosion sock and stakes, get those installed and inspected. Then we were allowed to bring in a couple triaxles of screened top soil and manually throw/spread it. Then I had to rent a hydroseed machine and spend around $1500 for the hydroseed, fertilizer and mulch to spray it all, then a truck load of straw and some straw blanket rolls. Then brought in a triaxle and a half of #3 to build a berm along the top edges to break up any rain water flow that could erode trenches. Now we have abut 2' of grass over the entire fill edge down to the old retired road.
I attached a somewhat dated early 2021 sat image with a white measurement line that approximates the silt sock placement and current extent of the driveway widening project. I did manage to end up with a 110'-130' wide driveway, so that is a win. When I started, the asphalt was placed to the edge of the steep ravine. Now Triaxles pull in and do a U-Turn in the upper driveway, I can pull the fifth wheel down back and point to the woods with the truck and back it straight to the house and lower level garages.
Where you see the mowers, the new 12x30 shed will be to the laft of that area, the back will face the 3.5 acre side yard. So the tall doors on the 12' tall and 30' long wall will face the 200' mark on the measurement line. The smaller set of doors will face the lower garages on the house. The roof will slant back to the 8' tall wall that is facing the side yard.
I may try next year to pay an engineer to draw up an erosion and settlement plan and attempt to get a permit to push out further into the side yard. I had planned 40' further into the yard and keeping the extension into the woods at the same distance from the house, but widen it by that 40' more. As it is, I can fit my 3 trailers in that "cove" out by the woods behind the house.... out of sight from the public. My goal has been to create as much useable flat area as possible and to be able hide my stuff out of site. I like the front to be "clean", just the house and landscaping.
So for now, I am being told that this is the end of my fun. I learned some other lessons here as well. When they count SQ/FT of land disturbed, they start at 1989 when the house was built and add in the creation of the foundation, the creation of the driveway... every sq/ft that was ever disturbed got added into my current project. I find this be crap, but they are saying that this is how they look at it.
