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Nicholas Pardue’s Eagle Scout Project

This Saturday, September 7, most of Troop 8 showed up at the T.R.E.E House Children’s Museum at 7:30am for Nicholas Pardue’s Eagle Scout Project. Garden Path Stone Center in Alexandria supplied materials and T&D PowerSkills contributed funds.

Photo of the site before the path was constructed.

Previously, there was no pathway to connect the main building of the T.R.E.E House with the benches and concrete pad on the opposite side of the playground. This corridor would become muddy and slick in the rain and created a hazard and eyesore. This project replaced that with a 70-foot long gravel and flagstone path.

Construction

Construction started with digging, which took a large amount of time.

Scouts breaking ground on construction of the new path.
The slope on the patio side presented a significant challenge to level.
The result of over an hour of digging.

Once the bed for the pathway was complete, scouts set about laying down and securing the weed barrier.

Scouts lay down the weed barrier across the 70 foot length of the path.
After the barrier has been flattened, it is secured by the border of the pathway.
Aerial photograph of scouts securing the weed tarp.

After the weed barrier and border have been positioned, flagstones are set alongside the path.

Once the stones have been staged, they can be moved into place. One group of scouts worked ahead leveling the stones, while another followed behind and filled the gravel.

Volunteers shovel gravel into a wheelbarrow for transport.
Scouts leveling stones and placing gravel.
Scouts placing gravel between the flagstones.
This process continued slowly but steadily down the length of the path.
Leveling the transition to the path was the final touch to complete the new path.

Results

After 4 hours of digging, leveling, and placing, work wrapped up around 11:30am. A total of 18 volunteers worked a combined 72 man-hours to finish the job. The new path compliments an Eagle Project completed by another Troop 8 member, Nathan Capezza, earlier this year. The flagpole constructed for his project can be seen on the side of the pathway.

Photo of the site before the path was constructed.
Finished pathway
The finished pathway.

The new pathway will make the outdoor areas of the T.R.E.E. House more accessible for people of all ages. Scouts walked away from the project feeling accomplished, having put in four hours of hard work to accomplish this.

Scouts stand on the pathway constructed for Nicholas Pardue's Eagle Scout project.

For more information about the Eagle Scout rank, see our page on Leadership and Advancement.

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