rock grave yard, faint of heart don't look

[addy1]

I paid a previous landscaper to tear down my 14000 gallon pond. The tenants did not care for it, it was costing me $200 a month to maintain it. She and her company had been working for me for around 2 years.

Sent her $1000 dollars for a truck load of dirt and labor.

This is what she did

She buried over 5 truckloads of boulders in the pond, the carpet, parts of the liner, the filter box, 6 pallets of beautiful flat rocks, sandstone. She dug up some of my mounds to lightly cover the debris with dirt, which over time sank. I spend the day fixing the ex pond hole.

The pictures are the rocks and debris I pulled out of just the stream bed, 45 foot long. Just breaks my heart, the rocks were all hand picked and beautiful She even buried some of my red rock boulders, from sedona, you can not remove rocks from there anymore. You can see one in the first picture on the left side., big boulders.

I gave her very specific instructions on how to do it. I guess I should have flown back and done it myself.

 

[Lisak1]

Ugh. I can't even imagine the heartbreak.

 

[peter hillman]

People don't realize how valuable rocks can be.

 

[Meyer Jordan]

I trust you communicated to her the error of her ways.

 

[Marshall]

Wow, sorry to hear that. They slaughtered that pond. I agree with @peter hillman that people just don't realize how valuable rocks are not to mention how hard they are to move.

 

[addy1]

I trust you communicated to her the error of her ways.

Not yet but I sure will. Discovered the grave yard just a few days ago.

 

[Big Lou]

So very sorry for you. Heart breaking.

 

[addy1]

I know how much I paid for it and the days in the desert washes collecting the boulders. A lot will be buried forever, I don't have the equipment or time to get it out a five foot deep pond. I removed as much trash as I could. Rusted metal bars sticking up through the dirt, liner, etc.

 

[MitchM]

Wow, how frustrating.

 

[Becky]

Gosh, that's terrible! I hope you have some recourse against her

 

[Tula]

Very sad .

 

[sissy]

You going to bring some of the rocks back to your pond as a memory .Would have been cheaper addy .Because they figure you can't see it so they pocket the cash and do a crappy job

 

[addy1]

No kidding Sissy, not only crappy but also dangerous, rusty broken metal sticking up for anybody to step on.

We are going to bring a few home, whatever my poor little prius can handle hauling, some memories. Small ones.

 

[Nepen]

I'm so sorry this happened! sucn tragic, some people really didn't know what to do.. and the cost you gave them was way too high for just to dump dirt in the hole... they were probably thinking 'oh wow, easy money'

 

[sissy]

I remember when i moved here all the stuff i was keeping came down on a moving truck and then a month later I rented a truck from hertz to bring stuff down that I decided to keep from the property .Learned the hard way to watch the first step getting out of a F250 .Even getting into it was hard I am sure a lot of people got a big laugh when I stopped to get fuel for the truck and me .I had a 5 gallon bucket on a rope so I could get in and out easier .Those trucks are not made for short people .