Sentences with phrase «cubic yards of»

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.

«One of the first things that we did, we had to fill the bottom of the stadium up 40 feet from the floor to the top, that's about 380,000 cubic yards of dirt to fill,» says Janeway.

Relocation of 2 million cubic yards of soil, reconstruction 115kv substation, construction of underground collector system, access roads, turbine foundations, O&M building, and erection, tower wiring, and turnover of (8) Clipper 2.5 MW C - 98 Generators.

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.

The devastating, 2.6 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash slurry released in a Tennessee dike burst could perhaps have been avoided if TVA officials hadn't rejected costly fixes, a new report in the Tennessean reveals.

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.

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 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.

McDonnell installed some 75 cubic yards of rooflite extensive mc to complete the project.

And it all grows on 1600 cubic yards of rooflite extensive mcl.

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...

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.

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.

The project grows on 60 cubic yards of rooflite extensive mc.

Their green roof grows on 11 cubic yards of rooflite extensive mc, as blended by Swanson Bark and Wood Products:

The project grows on 62 cubic yards of rooflite extensive mc and features a dramatic sloped roof.

Six years earlier, more than 5 million cubic yards of coal ash spilled into Tennessee's Emory River — one of the country's largest environmental disasters ever.

About 5.4 million cubic yards of ash ended up in a river and covering the private property of local citizens.

In 2008, five million cubic yards of coal ash, a toxic by - product of burning coal, spilled from the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee into the surrounding wealthy community.

And yes, the patriotic coal companies never seem to mention the despoilation of thousands of square miles of Appalachia with strip mines and millions of cubic yards of tailings dumped into streams and watersheds.

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.

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.

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

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.

Did you know this prolific volcano produces 250,000 - 650,000 cubic yards of lava per day?

Work will entail distributing approximately 200 cubic yards of fill materials onto the trail surface, and constructing a small low water crossing structure to allow passage over a drainage ditch.

Help make the work lighter — and more joyful — by joining us to move hundreds of cubic yards of trail surfacing, build fences to protect the surrounding habitat, and decommission social trails.

You won't mistake it for a Civic Type R. (Hint: only one autocrosses competitively and only one carries three cubic yards of bagged cedar mulch).

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.

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.

It'll carry about 5,000 pounds more in the bed, good for about two cubic yards of rock, more than enough for a residential landscaping job.

Well, if I had cubic yards of money, the M6 might well find itself in the garage of my mansion along with the several other cars I covet.

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.

Over a million cubic yards of earth and rock were excavated to make way for the World Trade Center.

In three clean - up days, volunteers cleared 1,700 feet of trails, spread 300 cubic yards of mulch, planted 900 daffodils, and created a tree nursery.

The construction team has estimated the entire project will use 40,000 cubic yards of concrete.

To date, they have used 1,000 cubic yards, leaving 39,000 cubic yards of concrete to go!

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.

«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 storm left 5.6 million cubic yards of fallen trees, broken branches and dead greenery in Houston, and Rice's team took first place in the contest with their plan to convert the wood into biomass charcoal, or «biochar,» for use as a CO2 - trapping soil amendment.

Twelve miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Michigan, will be temporarily shut while Enbridge dredges approximately 350,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment.

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.

Water and Power «The Roosevelt Dam in southern Arizona, recently completed, contains over 350,000 cubic yards of masonry, and forms the largest artificial reservoir now in existence; the construction of this reservoir required the expenditure of nearly $ 300,000 in wagon roads alone, to make the region accessible and to replace public roads submerged by the artificial lake.»

To get the 2,000 cubic yards of growing medium required up to the seventh - floor roof of the Morgan facility, Tecta America's Brian Singley worked with specialized sub-contractors to devise a new approach.

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.

Since 2000 San Diego has twice pumped about 1.5 million to two million cubic yards of sand from offshore onto beaches throughout the county, and it has performed a number of smaller replenishments during that time as well.

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.

Bill Toedter, president of the North Fork Environmental Council, and nearly 30 local environmental group leaders signed a letter addressed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo stating they oppose the proposal because it calls for disposing between 30 to 50 million cubic yards of dredge spoils into the Sound over the next 30 years.

Destiny's attorneys told the state it removed more than 80,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and installed a vapor barrier to keep fumes from any remaining contamination from getting into the mall addition.

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.