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nOn the previous day that Landon had supervised the military exam, the construction workers had continued on marking the roads, and had also marked each residential home on the blocks.

nToday was dedicated towards excavating the marked roads, digging up space for rainwater drainage, water supply, central heating, and sewage pipes.

nIf rainwater or melted snow wasn't drained, the roads and sidewalk pavements would become flooded.

nWhen that happened, the pavement grade would definitely decrease. As well as the lifespan of the pavement.

nThe central heating pipeline on the other hand, ensured that all buildings and houses were properly heated during the winter. It would also provide ventilation and air conditioning, to all buildings within Baymard.

nAll 4 pipelines: Rain, sewage, clean water, and Central heating, would be placed under the roads.

nUnderneath the left lane of the road would be the sewer pipeline, as well as the water supply pipeline.

nAnd below the right lane of the road would be the rainwater drainage pipeline.

nAs for the central heating pipeline, it would be placed underneath the center of the road.

nJust like how it was done back on earth, all 4 pipelines were placed underneath the road and buried at different depths.

nIn the case of a single lane road, all pipelines would still be placed underground... But their pipe sizes would be much smaller compared to that of a 2, or even a 6 lane road.

nFor rainwater drainage, the sidewalks along the roads would have what was usually called a 'catch basin'.

nThese basins would be placed periodically on both sides of the road, underneath the sidewalks.

nEvery after a certain distance, a catch basin would be seen draining the water away from the roads.

nTheir job was to gather all the water on the sides of the road, and pipe it to the main pipeline directly underneath the roads.

nAll street rainwater pipelines, would lead to all highway pipelines, and travel down towards the coastal region.... particularly District K.

nAt this point, Landon had realised that he needed to build a mini-estate that would focus on filtering out dirt from the water before it went to the ocean.

nRoadside water drains could sometimes catch cans, plastic wraps, banana peelings, oil spills from cars, coins and so on.

nWith all this happening, the ecosystem and marine life had to be protected..... Plus he didn't want all those bottles, plastic wraps and cans to wash up the shores of Baymard.

nIt was just not beach sexy.

nHence before the water went into the ocean, it needed to pass through a filtering plant.

nDistrict K was a great location for the filtration plant. It was between District J (Beach resorts), and District L (Navy and other armed forces).

nWho would like to turn up to a beach resort that had bottles and cans floating in the ocean?

nOn the other hand, the Sewage pipelines would also be directly underneath the left lane of all roads.

nSewage was a tricky one.

n90% of sewage systems worked with the help of gravity.

nMeaning that the pipes had to slope downwards from their source (sinks, toilets.. etc), to the wastewater treatment plant.

nLuckily for Baymard, the treatment plant was in the lower region.

nThe upper region generally had a high elevation point to the central region... And the central region in turn had a slightly higher elevation point than the coastal region.

nBut the lower region had the lowest elevation point in Baymard, which was what Landon needed... In this way, all the waste would flow downhill with ease.

nGravity was needed because waste water generally had a lot of solids in it, which made pumping a plain in the butt.

nThere was tissue paper, bones from the sink, seeds from fruits, that would end up in the pipes... Making it very hard to pump.

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nBut although pumping was stressful for sewage, it was still very much possible.

nIf there were areas that needed poop to travel over hills, grinded pumps or lift stations would be used to pressurize the poop.

nThe lift stations literally pushed the sewage up the hills, to a needed height where they could gravity-flow downwards again.

nSo in the ideal situation, pipes from each house would connect to a main sewer pipe underneath the road, and flow downhill by gravity.

nAnd now that the men had marked out each residential unit around the blocks, they now knew how many residential sewage pipelines would branch out from the main sewage pipeline underneath the road.

nThere would also be manholes placed periodically along the pipes.

nThese manholes would act as access points, should incase a problem arises in the sewer pipeline.

nFor example if a toddler had a bad habit of frequently flushing down his toys in the toilet, there might be a clog over time with the sewer pipelines.

nWhen that happened, the workers would have to use these manholes and unclog the area.

nAnd aside from sewers, rainwater pipelines would also have manholes as well.

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nOnce Landon and the men arrived at the road site, they immediately got on the heavy machines and began work.

nWhen they had their driving classes months ago, they had been thoroughly taught how to install all these piping units... And had also done so when they were constructing the other 3 industrial sites.

nWith months of experience under their belt, they immediately knew what to do when they looked at the piping plan.

nAnd for the next 3 days, some people used excavators to dig up the ground, others placed the pipes with the hell of Draglines and other heavy machines.

nSome leveled the ground with bulldozers, while others compacted the ground with compactors, rollers .

nAnd since there were not enough machines for 5000 people, those that weren't driving, either jumped down into the trench and guided those who were on the machines placing the pipes, screwed the pipes together, continued marking the land, and so on...

nAt the end of the day, there was a job for everyone on site.

nOn the 6th and 7th day of the week, they completely tarred the roads using the pavers, spreaders, and other heavy machines.

nFinally, they were done... well, almost done.

nAlthough training week was over, Landon still added 2 more days for teaching.

nThe tar on the road would only take a day at most to dry, so while it was drying... the men did the sidewalks.

nAnd once it was finally dried, road marking heavy machines were used to paint the roads.

nThe white painted lines usually differentiated each lane, bicycle paths, traffic lines, pedestrian crossing lines, and so on.

nWhen everything was done, Landon could finally close his lessons on road construction.

nOf course he had made up his mind that at least 2 days a week, he would come over to assist them..... As well as check up on their work.

nBefore Landon left, he divided the men into 2 main groups.

nThe 1st group would continue working on the residential roads within District E.... While group 2 would start installing the main highway pipelines, and connecting them to the coastal or lower regions.

nUnlike the others, the main highway pipelines were not going to be placed beneath any highway road.

nThey would be placed at the sides, hence the men didn't need to necessary touch the roads.

nThey just had to place the pipes alongside all highway roads, and connect them to the coastal region, or the plants in the lower region.... depending on what pipeline it was.

nOn the city plan, there were 3 main highway roads within the district..... Two had 3 lanes, while the last one had 6 lanes.

nLandon needed the men to start working on those pipelines now....

nAt the end of the day... even if house or road construction within the District was done, if these pipelines weren't connected to the coastal or lower regions yet, then nothing would be supplied or drained.

nNo clean water, no heating, no sewage drainage, no rainwater drainage....nothing!!

nLandon really wanted to get things done before it started snowing.

nIn Baymard... Snow usually started in the early days of December, and sometimes in the later days of November.

nLandon's plan was to get the original Baymard citizens all housed up before then.

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nAnd at that time, all these features needed to be fully installed and working within in their homes.

nRight now, Landon really wanted to finish this housing mission... but he also knew that Baymard's housing plans couldn't be rushed either.

nFor the system's mission to be completed, he needed to successfully house all the original Citizens of Baymard..... sigh.....

nLong story short... Time was money, and he needed the citizens to be safe for the winter.

nHence, those pipelines needed to be installed A.S.A.P.

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nWhile Landon jumped from one industry to the other, the royals and nobles in the Capital were perplexed over the lateness of one particular noble.

nEveryone just had one question in mind.....

nWhere the hell was City lord Shannon?

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