Sentences with phrase «cubic yards at»

Mine could carry nearly a cubic yard at a time, with no lifting, only pushing.

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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.

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.

About 2,700 cubic yards of material had been dumped at Lippold.

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.

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.

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.

At such concentrations, a cubic yard of soil would contain as much as five gallons of water.

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.

Reconstruction deposited nearly 3,000,000 cubic yards (2,300,000 cubic metres) of landslide material on the coast, at the base of the slope.

After making a 200 - mile (Prius) «commute» at dawn on Friday to Fort Edward, N.Y., I joined a throng of 100 or so people who gathered to watch as a clamshell dredge scooped the first five cubic yards of PCB - tainted mud from the bed of the Hudson River.

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.

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.

The prison's immediate surroundings, according to the investigation's 2014 report, No Escape: Exposure to Toxic Coal Waste at State Correctional Institution Fayette, include about 40 million tons of waste, two coal slurry ponds and millions of cubic yards of coal combustion waste.

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.

The project presents several construction challenges: excavation of more than 500,000 cubic yards of earth for a five - level, underground parking structure; demolition of four existing structures; rerouting of major utilities; working around the construction of a rail station at the site; and limited staging areas.