Sentences with phrase «erosion control on»

Continuing to manage erosion control on a daily basis, ensuring that the job site is up to standard with DOE regulations.

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With Merck facing a significant patent cliff in 2017, continued momentum in the new product cycle and a keen focus on cost controls will be key to offsetting generic erosion.

As a result of this all too typical pattern of unjust land distribution, for example, 77 percent of the land in El Salvador, where fourteen families control the wealth, is suffering from erosion, according to a recent study.25 A more just distribution of land would greatly reduce the negative impact on the environment.

But trustees decided to waive about $ 80,000 in a grading deposit, which covers work such as drainage improvements, fine grading and seeding; on - site access roads; erosion control fencing; street sweeping; and a final «as - built» grading plan signed by the developers» engineers.

Escalating the tension on Tuesday, DiNapoli issued a report that was critical of the pension proposal that was baked into the budget and questioned Cuomo's desire for more control over how money is moved between agencies, warning it could lead to an erosion of oversight.

Under the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's Stormwater Permit, all construction site contractors and subcontractors must have at least one «trained individual» from their company on their construction sites on a daily basis that is responsible for implementation of Erosion Controls and Stormwater Management.

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

Out on some Montana roadsides, woolen silt fences and erosion - control blankets are cropping up, according to Rob Ament of the Western Transportation Institute, which adapted the practice from New Zealand colleagues.

This erosion of local control of public education is an attack on the values that Wisconsin has long held dear.

In fact, market research firm GfK gave a very interesting presentation that showed how pet food companies that have demonstrated a commitment to the independent pet specialty channel, including installing policies that prevent price erosion, have enjoyed above average growth compared to companies with broader channel strategies and less controls on pricing.

Whether it's brushing on Hawk Hill or helping to control erosion at Lands End, volunteering with the Golden Gate Trail Crew is sure to provide a unique and fun experience.

While Ventura Harbor was built specifically for recreation, Channel Islands Harbor was created by the Army Corps of Engineers as a sand trap to control erosion on down - coast beaches.

Rich produced a manual on using vegetative erosion and landslide control, with input from forestry and conservation experts and local Public Works engineers.

They rely on natural resources (water, soil, plants) as well as on the services they provide (pollination, erosion control, and others).

Assisted revegetation programs designed to control erosion on affected areas have met with limited success due to their immense expanse and the prevalence of nutrient poor, well - drained and highly erodable sands, in conjunction with the cold, dry climate (Martens 1995; Forbes and Jefferies 1999).»

Founded by Nebraska journalist Sterling Morton, who advocated planting trees as erosion control (to help keep soil in place), to act as windbreaks, and to provide fuel and building materials in his home state, Arbor Day was declared by the Governor of Nebraska in 1874 to be held on Morton's birthday, April 22nd.

The 2011 Gordon Osbaldeston Lecture — A Short History of the Erosion of Trust — Allan R. Gregg — From inauthenticity to an essay on it: Gregg's target, though, is politics: «So even if we are now less deferential to our traditional leaders, and more efficacious and cynical as individuals, it may also be that this cultural shift has rendered us more insecure and vulnerable to the larger uncertainties that we can not control through technology and social media.»