Talon's Eagle Project

Temporary outdoor drinking fountains 

The city community center. It use to be an elementary school.

Spot dug out to pour concrete and extension to the sump

Talon and Matt preparing the concrete

Finished concrete

Talon went a little bit "Caution" tape happy.

Matt and Jake working on attaching the plumbing to the drinking fountain.

Talon with the installed drinking fountain

Talon and Chad drinking from the fountain

A nearby family anxious to drink from the new drinking fountain.

As you can see, Talon, for his Eagle Project for Scouts, helped install a new outdoor drinking fountain at the city community center just in time for the annual Peach Days celebration, which took place the next day! I pretty much had to "hold his hand" through the entire process. First, He had to put together a proposal. He filled it out once online, saved it, and forward it to my computer. Somehow, it didn't save. So we printed out the form and had him hand write it in. His scout master wouldn't accept that. So we did it again on the computer and printed it off right then and it worked. He had to get 4 different signatures, but it was then approved.  Then we had to get all the materials donated. A plumbing company that Jake works for donated all the plumbing supplies. A local concrete company donated the concrete and gravel for the sump. Then Ace donated some last needed things like the anchor bolts. Matt and Talon and his cousin Austin dug out the dirt where the concrete went. Then the delivery for the drinking fountain was postponed 3 weeks and then never came, so the city had to find another source and it was delivered 1 week later. Then the weekend that I went to California, The scouts and some family and Talon and Matt dug out the trench and the sump and the next day Jake put in all the plumbing and hooked it up and filled the dirt back in and put the grass back on it. They did such a good job that you can't hardly tell where the trench and sump hole were dug through the grass just 2 weeks later. They had to leave it like that until the delivery of the drinking fountain. Then they were able to do the concrete and then the installation of the drinking fountain. One story to add to this is that on the day where the plumbing was being put in, Matt had a terrible vertigo attack. All he could do was lie there on the grass with his eyes closed and block out the world for about 3 hours.  Luckily his brother Nathan was there helping and was able to take over to get the 35' trench dug at the right slope then back-filled, and the 5'x5' by 4' deep sump hole dug then filled with rock, wrapped in weed barrier, and backfilled.  He did a ton of work helping out.  Jake was also there doing the plumbing rough-in and helped with the shovel work.  Thanks Nate and Jake! I felt so bad for Matt and felt bad that I was in California and not there helping. We originally did not plan for these to events to land on the same weekend, but they did. Matt agreed to let me go and that everything would be fine if I left. Everything in the end worked out, but I still felt bad about it.