My professional creed includes: • Managing all aspects of construction and erection of new 6M ton per year stone processing, screening and wash plant and quarry site that includes mass excavation removal of more than 1.5
M cubic yards of overburden.
Not exact matches
Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have
been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil,
cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.
«There
's still something out there,» he said, but «in the place of the old nature rears up a new «nature» of our own devising» — a construct where «each
cubic yard of air, each square foot of soil
is stamped indelibly with our crude imprint, our X.»
Six palettes of concrete
were mixed and 135
cubic yards of mulch
were shoveled, moved, and evenly distributed over the new play area.
The piles of hurricane debris that lined US - 1 for months
were finally cleared last month, eliminating 2.5 million
cubic yards of garbage that towered over the only road connecting the Keys to the Florida mainland.
This mixture
is pumped into a device which separates the manure's solids and liquids (ten
cubic yards of manure solids
are produced each day, which
are hauled to another location, composted, then spread on fields as fertilizer)
The village and the Park District have an intergovernmental agreement to develop the site, which currently
is a 1.75 - million -
cubic -
yard pile of dirt.
But some residents say the village isn't doing enough to discover who
was at fault for moving the 200,000
cubic yards of excess dirt onto the site.
Bostrom also said plans to haul 32,000
cubic yards of dirt to another park in the village for the addition would
be halved.
About 2,700
cubic yards of material had
been dumped at Lippold.
The Crystal Lake Park District voted 4 - 1 Wednesday night to move 2,700
cubic yards of lead - and arsenic - tainted soil that had
been trucked to Lippold Park back to Veteran Acres Park.
Workers spent hours Saturday pouring 4,000
cubic -
yards of concrete into the second — and final — section of the base that will hold up the 630 foot, 20 million pound New York Wheel that
's expected to open next year.
Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said his town's concerns — including the potential use of 450 acres of Mattituck agricultural land to de-water 2 million
cubic yards of dredge spoil —
were entirely «ignored.»
The DEC plan would clear 8,600
cubic yards of contaminated soil that
was left behind when Bethlehem Steel closed its Lackawanna plant decades ago.
He and fellow Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman say the EPA plan will allow tens of millions of
cubic yards of dredged sediments to
be dumped in the waterway that divides Long Island and Connecticut.
They announced 2.2 million
cubic yards of polluted lake bed had
been removed.
In March, Suffolk lawmakers and local environmentalists urged Gov. Cuomo to reject the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers» plan for about 53 million
cubic yards of dredge spoils to
be dumped into the Sound over the next 30 years.
The plan calls for 200,000
cubic yards of material to
be taken out of the waterways.
«We
're going to
be taking 50,000
cubic yards of dredged sentiment from the Buffalo River and utilizing it here on Unity Island to help restore 10 acres of wetland habitat, providing an access for fish and wildlife to move freely between the Niagara River and isolated water bodies here on the island,» said Lieutenant Colonel Adam Czekanski, the Army Corps of Engineers» Buffalo District Commander.
That concern involves the suggestion that 450 acres of agricultural land in Mattituck might
be a feasible location for de-watering 2 million
cubic yards of dredge spoil.
As a result of the $ 1 billion effort, more than 3 million
cubic yards of P.C.B. - contaminated sediment have already
been removed.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The final touches on the New York Wheel's foundation will begin Saturday when 4,000
cubic yards of concrete
are poured at the St. George site.
The Town Board on March 5 granted an excavation permit to Headriver LLC — which
is building a 170,000 - square - foot Walmart just west of Applebee's — that authorizes the importation of 4,615
cubic yard of soil and the exportation of 4,075
cubic yards of soil.
Honeywell has opened a new Onondaga Lake Visitors Center, right next to the company
's massive project that
's dredging and capping two million
cubic yards of contaminated lake soil.
The Community Action Organization of Erie County recently obtained a Department of Environmental Conservation permit that allows agency officials to collect 1,000
cubic yards of food scraps, which
is more than 1,000 tons.
California has added sand to its beaches for decades — for instance, about 1.3 million
cubic yards of sand
is placed every five to seven years at Surfside — Sunset in Orange County.
These «nourishment» projects, as they
are called, usually average out to about $ 8 to $ 10 per
cubic yard of sand, says Lesley Ewing, a senior coastal engineer with the California Coastal Commission.
Nearly all of them tap the Ogallala aquifer, the largest in the U.S., and it
is being depleted at a rate of 15 billion
cubic yards a year — much more than the rainfall and runoff that reaches it to recharge it.
That 500 - million -
cubic - meter (650 - million -
cubic -
yard) shortfall
was why the Sea of Galilee
was draining like an unplugged tub and why the country
was about to lose its farms.
But after the $ 25 million removal of some 300,000
cubic yards of contaminated sediment, Spoelstra's optimism
was tempered by the enormity of what lay ahead.
But even with those measures, Israel still needed about 1.9 billion
cubic meters (2.5 billion
cubic yards) of freshwater per year and
was getting just 1.4 billion
cubic meters (1.8 billion
cubic yards) from natural sources.
As of August 2008, it
was still spewing some 130,000
cubic yards a day into what
is now a steaming lake of hot mud, 60 feet deep and nearly three square miles in area.
Twelve miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Michigan, will
be temporarily shut while Enbridge dredges approximately 350,000
cubic yards of contaminated sediment.
«If we want to complete all the restoration that we want to do in the next 20 or 30 years, we
're going to need millions of
cubic yards of sediment.»
The Gilt Edge Mine in South Dakota
was a gold mine that an insolvent company abandoned in the late 1990s, leaving behind 150 million gallons of acidic heavy - metal - laden water, as well as millions of
cubic yards of acid - generating tailings.
Over a million
cubic yards of earth and rock
were excavated to make way for the World Trade Center.
The asphalt that covered the school's east - side playground has
been dug up and removed, replaced by 120
cubic yards of wood chips that cover the gentle slope down to the school's entrance.
It
's a gimmick, but a good one: Toyota has trucked in 440
cubic yards of dirt and 20 tons of gravel to build an off - road course to demonstrate its four - wheel - drive vehicles.
A zigzag course has
been constructed in the parking lot at the Orange County Convention Center's North - South complex, with 440
cubic yards of dirt and 20 tons of gravel.
PaperGator has prevented paper from occupying 220,000
cubic yards within landfills, which Phelan notes
is a winning partnership for everyone.
The quality of light, not just in the galleries but in the entire building as a whole,
is the essential characteristic of the museum, even more defining than the 4,000
cubic yards of textured concrete that Cloepfil cast into the earth.
The numbers alone
are enough to conjure up civic pride: 45,000
cubic yards of concrete, 12 million pounds of steel, nine different types of glass, Stalled for nearly four decades, the new Central Library
is finally taking shape in downtown... Continued
In 1936, the communities of Barren Island
were evicted, the landfill
was capped, and six million
cubic yards of sand
were pumped from the bottom of Jamaica Bay to create the grounds for Floyd Bennett Field — New York City's first municipal airport.
On the south side of the power plant, at the Liberty Mine, a giant dragline
is already taking 86 -
cubic -
yard (65.7 -
cubic - meter) bites out of the countryside.
Yes when you consider that the life expectancy of the landfill
is extended by every ton diverted (15)(3.3
cubic yards of space) and the inherent long term siting and construction and monitoring costs associated with a future landfill
are significantly delayed.
According to the Hoffman Road Landfill web site (21), the disposal of Solid Waste (Garbage) at the only Lucas County landfill, will
be tipping fees at $ 16 per
cubic yard, which equates roughly to over $ 48 / ton since a ton of waste equals about 3.3
cubic yard.
This
is a project I
am very fond of, not just because of the few hundred
cubic yards of rooflite ® the roof grows on, but also because it it the closest green roof on a LEED certified to Skyland USA's own headquarters.
Emma Penrod August 12, 2016 The Salt Lake Tribune State officials say the Price River
is safe for recreation and irrigation and that Rocky Mountain Power should
be able to handle any future storms like the one that discharged an estimated 2,700
cubic yards of coal ash into the Price...
Manure - only Exemption: Some agricultural facilities that digest their own «agricultural material» and do not sell or give away more than 1,000
cubic yards of compost annually
are excluded from regulation.
The group
is facing obstacles comparable to those of the steelhead trout: six million
cubic yards of silt, an earthquake fault, and costs estimated at more than $ 140 million.