Kehoe is not always on a hill. We do a lot of permitting, putting the plan and the bid together, he said. Court testimony and legal work have also taken some time lately. Kehoe has been very active in several landscape contractors associations, as well as the state and Snohomish County farm bureaus. He is on advisory committees for horticulture programs at Edmonds and South Seattle community colleges.
Drainage is installed behind a small retaining wall at Richmond Beach last year.
But the daily rains of the last four months kept him out of the office. These grounds are totally saturated in the Pacific Northwest right now, said Kehoe. Faces of hillsides are falling off, sinkholes are growing and there are general landslides. From Everett to Redondo Beach to Orcas Island, the firm is busy repairing damage and reducing the threat of slide-related disaster while designing and constructing landscapes. Inspections are now a large part of his business.