The only place that has sandy material is from the banks of the mississippi river. But the river water level is higher than the borrow pits. So I may have to wait for the water level to come down, which it already started coming down this week.
I think I'm going to cut some 2' deep trenches every 20' in and around the pad site so that when I start tracking on the material the ground water will be able to flow into the trenches and not pump up into the fill that i'm going compacting. Then I'm going to stock pile the fill material in-between the trenches and disc it to dry it. as the fill material dries out I will cut the top dry layer off and use it in 6" lifts to get my compaction. Hopefully as I'm compacting it the ground water will go into the trenches and not up into my fill. Then I will have to muck out the trenches and backfill and compact them last. If anybody has a better idea that 's affordable, I'm open. As with all clients they can't see why there pad is going to cost more and take longer than there friends pad that was built in july. They also have a inlaw that is a very good carpenter that is telling them how easy it is to build a pad and he doesn't see what the problem is.
I'm sure everybody on this forum has dealt with the brother inlaw, uncle, coworker ect, ect,ect that knows more than the people that have been doing this for years.
The Smart thing to do would be wait until the conditions are better. But I'm going to try to get this pad to pass compaction for a reasonable price. They just don't know how hard it's going to be.