The crew was eight women from Vellasera, hired at fair daily rates with a lunch stipend that Katarina had budgeted for and Ottavia had taken personal control of, which meant the lunches were too salty but nobody complained because free food was free food.
Anyway, they started digging on a Monday.
The test trench ran three hundred feet along the lower edge of the Montecardi property, following the natural grade toward the canyon drainage point.
Clay soil, mostly, with a gravel layer about two feet down that was going to make pipe bedding easier than Katarina had projected. She revised the timeline in her head and saved half a day.
Brynn, naturally, had volunteered.
