This morning the Concord Water Department came by the house and ripped out the water meter, literally. This is the first step in shutting off water to the property. The next step is to make a hole in our driveway to turn off the valve.

This has to be done before we demolish the house and I felt that I might as well get it done before winter to reduce the possibility of a water problem due to frozen pipes (even though I have the heat on in the house, set at 50F).

As part of the build process, the water department will have to dig up the street in front of the house and put in a new water pipe from the street to the house. But we will deal with that later.

Meanwhile, last minute preparations are being done to submit our plans to the Concord Natural Resources Commission. The submission is due today (Nov 20) for a first hearing on December 11th. As part of the process, we discovered that the initial survey did not include all the trees on the South side of the proposed house location, and when we corrected that we found four more trees that need to be taken down. Sigh.

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