Autodesk Autocad - 2004 --land Desktop -civil Design

Fill Volume: 12,105 cu. yd.

He walked away. Sarah saved her file: Maple_Creek_Phase3.dwg . She leaned back, looked at the clean, precise lines on her screen—the contours, the alignments, the parcel boundaries. Autodesk AutoCAD 2004 --land Desktop -civil Design

Sarah’s heart sank. Phase 2 had been a disaster—retaining walls built where there should have been swales, storm drains that flowed uphill (according to the neighbors’ flooded basements). The developer was blaming the engineering firm. Henderson was blaming the previous junior engineer, who had quit. Now, it was her mess. Fill Volume: 12,105 cu

And she hadn't even spilled her coffee.

Sarah’s jaw dropped. The balance was almost perfect. The old design from Phase 2 had required trucking in 8,000 yards of fill, a budget-busting disaster. Her design, following the land’s natural ridge, was dirt-neutral. Sarah saved her file: Maple_Creek_Phase3

He stared at the cut/fill numbers. A long silence. Then, the corner of his mouth twitched. It wasn't a smile—Henderson didn't smile—but it was close. "You know," he said, folding the plan carefully, "when I started, we did this with a slide rule and a planimeter. Took two weeks."

"You found the swale."