Sentences with phrase «cubic yards»

Not as easy to make off with a 2 cubic yard super sack.

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.

Sander said the village could comply with the design plan by moving 150,000 cubic yards at a cost of $ 300,000.

For her P.S. 1 project, Key will create a site - specific installation that fragments the room into cubic yards with mason twine.

A single cubic yard of sea ice contains a million or more liquid compartments, microscopic test tubes that could have created unique mixtures of RNA that eventually formed the first life.

PaperGator has prevented paper from occupying 220,000 cubic yards within landfills, which Phelan notes is a winning partnership for everyone.

If Key's division of the space into cubic yards nods to the system of measurement favored by New York City realtors, her employment of the gallery as a warehouse for the term of the exhibition conjures the grim narrative of gentrification's rapid commodification of space.

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.

To determine how many cubic yards you need: Take the square footage of your garden bed and multiply it by the desired mulch depth and divide it by 324.

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.

Antarctic krill, small shrimplike creatures, swim in dense schools of 20,000 or so animals per cubic yard.

The two EcoScraps facilities in Utah and Arizona produce 35 to 40 cubic yards of compost per day — enough to supply local nurseries and grocery stores but not enough to allow EcoScraps to approach Home Depot or Walmart.

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.

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

«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.»

Now, before signing up new business, Lubbers analyzes the total cost of servicing it, which includes the container price (roughly $ 100 per cubic yard) as well as prospective charges for financing, trucking, fuel, labor, repair and maintenance, insurance, and administrative overhead.

The hard working volunteers not only mixed two pallets of concrete by hand but they also moved 200 cubic yards of engineered wood fiber mulch for the playground!

Six palettes of concrete were mixed and 135 cubic yards of mulch were shoveled, moved, and evenly distributed over the new play area.

So far, some 230,000 cubic yards of black muck has been removed from Turkey Creek between the railroad bridge and the lagoon.

BOEM has conveyed rights to millions of cubic yards of OCS sand for coastal restoration projects in multiple states.

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.

During the 46 days of debris removal operations managed by the court engineers, nearly 1.3 million cubic yards — 68 percent — of debris has been removed from the Joplin area, at an average rate of 27,684 cubic yards per day.

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)

Two tons of blasting powder and a few bulldozers moved 40,000 cubic yards of earth on Lookout.

Consequentially, the price of concrete will shoot up to plus / minus $ 200 / cubic yard (80 square feet if referencing flatwork).

Three years ago Sochi organizers began socking away in vast crypts some 195,000 cubic yards of snow, chemically treated so it loses only a fraction of its volume.

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.

Under the change, the village would move about 170,000 cubic yards of dirt and construct a storm sewer for about $ 699,000.

Also, a new pedestrian underpass to the Field Museum beneath the reconfigured Lake Shore Drive will require excavation of at least 100,000 cubic yards of dirt, which the Park District plans to dump on Northerly Island to make it a new park.

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.

«Honeywell will leave close to 10 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment under the many caps in the lake,» said Judith Enck, the Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator from 2009 until January.

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.

This map shows the green - shaded areas of the former Roth Steel site, where the Onondaga County industrial Development Agency plans to deposit roughly 120,000 cubic yards of dredge spoils from the Syracuse Inner Harbor.

About 10 acres of the most polluted land at the Roth Steel property would be used to deposit the 120,000 cubic yards of materials expected to be dredged from the harbor.

Suffolk County lawmakers, civic leaders and environmentalists urged Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Tuesday to veto a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to continue dumping as much as 53 million cubic yards of dredge spoils in Long Island Sound over the next three decades.

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.

It will remove between 115,000 and 135,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Buffalo River and will relocate the sediment to Unity Island for an aquatic habitat and invasive species management project.

During the project, it's estimated that 3 million cubic yards of PCB - laden muck have been taken out of the river.

Suffolk County lawmakers, civic leaders and environmentalists urged Cuomo to veto a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to continue dumping as much as 53 million cubic yards of dredge spoils in Long Island Sound over the next three decades.

And the 300,000 cubic yards of concrete used in the construction is enough to build a sidewalk from the bridge all the way to Key West, Florida.

Honeywell officials plan to announce at a 10 a.m. news conference that the removal of about 2.2 million cubic yards of toxic - laden lake bottom — more than enough to fill the Carrier Dome — has been completed a year ahead of schedule.

Honeywell will announce today it has completed dredging 2.2 million cubic yards of contaminated lake bottom a year ahead of schedule.

While the city has added 4.15 million cubic yards of sand onto city beaches to shore them up against future storms in the short term, they're also focused on long - term measures to improve resiliency efforts, he said.

The plan calls for 200,000 cubic yards of material to be taken out of the waterways.