And the Walls Came Tumblin' Down!

The house at 2429 Maple Avenue has been torn down. The third house to be torn down on the south side of the 2400 block of Maple. Will the new house contribute to the water in the Oak Avenue backyards? Did Liberace wear rhinestones? Based on previous experience with the other two teardowns on Maple, it won't take much time to find out. As soon as the house is framed, we should be prepared for the result. Someone suggested sandbagging our property lines. 

Meanwhile, we stopped by the morning after the tear down. The Tonka shovel was removing a lot of broken concrete. To our untrained eye, the hole seemed shallow, so we wondered whether the home had been built on a concrete slab with a crawl space instead of a basement. Will the new house have a traditional basement? If so, where will that extra dirt/water go? 

We'll keep an eye out for signs of catch basins [don't expect more than one, since the sewer system isn't equipped to handle two.] There is a pile of excavation dirt in the upper right in some photos. It should be used for backfill. Will it?