Sentences with phrase «cubic acres»

No units given so I'm assuming cubic acres.

Not exact matches

In four weeks the workers leveled hundreds of acres and moved some 3 million cubic yards of dirt — enough to fill three football stadiums.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

PPC now has two locations on 54 acres, with more than 2.5 million cubic feet of refrigerated and frozen capacity, and more than 140,000 square feet of total space.

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.

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.»

«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.

«David Liittschwager straddled his green cubic - foot frame over a decaying deadfall log in the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, a three - acre fenced - off area at the southern edge of New York's Central Park.

Monthly measurements in the change in water mass from December 2004 to November 2013 revealed the basin lost nearly 53 million acre feet (65 cubic kilometers) of freshwater, almost double the volume of the nation's largest reservoir, Nevada's Lake Mead.

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., found during a seven - year period beginning in 2003 that parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran along the Tigris and Euphrates river basins lost 117 million acre feet (144 cubic kilometers) of total stored freshwater.

So: «One acre - foot of water (the amount of water covering 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot) equals 326,000 gallons or 43,560 cubic feet of water, and weighs 2.7 million pounds.»

It's projected to produce 25,000 acre - feet (30 million cubic meters) of freshwater per year, serving 50,000 homes.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that the National Petroleum Reserve — Alaska, which encompasses about 23 million acres and is the largest single block of federally managed land in the U.S., holds 896 million barrels of oil and 53 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

As of 2005, the total depletion since pre-development amounted to 253 million acre - feet (312 cubic km).»

It has a waste footprint of about 130 acres, with an existing waste - in - place volume of about 11.6 million cubic yards.