Sentences with phrase «of erosion controls»

Under the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's Stormwater Permit, all construction site contractors and subcontractors must have at least one «trained individual» from their company on their construction sites on a daily basis that is responsible for implementation of Erosion Controls and Stormwater Management.

● Assist park staff with the construction of erosion controlled structures, such as wood and rock retaining walls, steps / staircases, post and cable and split rail fences.

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For all its track record of innovation and investment the US has created for its tech businesses some interesting competitive disadvantages: high noise levels of spam and marketing, erosion of trust and degraded value of personal data, laws like Patriot Act and FISAAA which justifiably piss non-USians off, programs like PRISM which seriously undermine the credibility of the companies affected, the dead hand and zombie brain of an out of control military - industrial complex.

As a result of this all too typical pattern of unjust land distribution, for example, 77 percent of the land in El Salvador, where fourteen families control the wealth, is suffering from erosion, according to a recent study.25 A more just distribution of land would greatly reduce the negative impact on the environment.

In «China's «Networked Authoritarianism»,» she shows how «strong governments in weak or new democracies are using second - and third - generation Internet controls in ways that contribute to the erosion of democracy and slippage back towards authoritarianism.»

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agrari (AGRA), a national peasant federation in Indonesia in statement expressed that «Indonesia, as with the whole region, is also threatened by the growing corporate control over agriculture and consequent erosion of traditional seed resources.

The introduction of trees to form agroforestry systems provided sources of firewood, timber, fruits and shade, but also helped in erosion control, protecting water courses through the stabilization of the soil and as wind breaks, regulating the velocity of the winds.

Erosion control measures were introduced, including a system of ditches and living barriers.

Ken Kutska, superintendent of parks and planning for the Wheaton Park District, said he was heartened by the attention given to erosion control because of the interdependence of the waterway systems.

The Polish parliament has approved government proposals to hand the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) effective control of judicial appointments and the supreme court, in a move seen by critics as an erosion of judicial independence.

Escalating the tension on Tuesday, DiNapoli issued a report that was critical of the pension proposal that was baked into the budget and questioned Cuomo's desire for more control over how money is moved between agencies, warning it could lead to an erosion of oversight.

A Hartland real estate company has agreed to pay $ 150,000 in penalties for violating state environmental laws regarding erosion control during construction of a condominium project.

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

In addition, the Budget includes $ 102 million for the Department of Environmental Conservation to advance flood control, coastal erosion and critical dam safety projects.

«Nevertheless, we should manage European forest to safeguard other functions, like biodiversity conservation, wood production, flood control, prevention of soil erosion.

Ecosystems provide the most basic provisioning services — food, firewood, and medicines — along with the so - called regulating services of a fully functional environment, which include cleaning the air, purifying water, controlling floods and erosion, storing carbon, and detoxifying pollutants in soils.

Researchers said rivers can cut through bedrock and this process is thought to be the major factor in controlling mountain erosion, however, the long - term preservation of some mountains is at odds with some of the underlying assumptions regarding river erosion rates in current models of river - based landscape evolution.

In the Philippines, deforestation — there will be no forests there by the end of the century — erosion and overfishing have severely damaged the natural resource base, and insurgents control 20 per cent of the country.

Out on some Montana roadsides, woolen silt fences and erosion - control blankets are cropping up, according to Rob Ament of the Western Transportation Institute, which adapted the practice from New Zealand colleagues.

After a series of powerful floods in the late 1990s, China's government launched a series of landmark ecological initiatives aimed at controlling soil erosion, including the Grain - for - Green Program.

These functions include soil stabilization and erosion control; storm surge and flood protection; biodiversity; food production; and the provision of nursery habitat for economically important seafood species, including shrimp, crab and fish.

1969 «Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago», 10,000 square feet of tarpaulin; «Wrapped Floor and Stairway», 2,800 square feet drop cloths, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; «Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, One Million Square Feet, Sydney, Australia», 90,000 square meters (One million square feet) Erosion Control fabric and 36 miles of ropes; Project for stacked Oil Barrels «Houston Mastaba, Texas», 1,249,000 barrels; Project for «Closed Highway».

Regenerative farming practices that include composting, erosion control and water harvesting are the founding principle of the demo farm that is being set up by Commonland in the Los Veléz - Altiplano area of Spain.

The overall rate of sedimentation is controlled by the upthrust of mountains and the erosion and chemical breakdown of their rocks.

They provide the first line of defense to natural disaster and help control erosion.

Darryl Kilbert, the superintendent hired by OPSB to manage its small portfolio of schools, portrays the current transitional arrangement as an erosion of democracy itself and espouses restoration of «community control.»

This erosion of local control of public education is an attack on the values that Wisconsin has long held dear.

While Ventura Harbor was built specifically for recreation, Channel Islands Harbor was created by the Army Corps of Engineers as a sand trap to control erosion on down - coast beaches.

JG In recent decades, we've seen the erosion of the once tightly controlled boundaries of what Jean Dubuffet called Art Brut, which is now subsumed within the more vague and unsatisfactory term Outsider Art.

Examining the regimes of control to which the human body is increasingly subjected — ranging from governmental and corporate surveillance to the relentless pursuit of youth — Kline addresses the erosion of boundaries between labor and leisure and the incursion of consumer culture into the most literally intimate aspects of life: blood, DNA, neurochemistry.

/ / www.apsc.gov.au/publications07/wickedproblems2.htm Given Freidman's golden straightjacket after decades of erosion of gov» t power, and path dependence in our complex service sector dominated economies, and the general control of culture by The Church of Business, the much ado about nothing crowd will make sure nothing is done for quite a while yet.

I have many facts and fascinating stories to share with you about the politics of the local six campasinos who control the core preserves.The Mexican NGO Alternare has worked to educate the 37 campasinos within the preserve to practice sustainable organic farming methods to prevent erosion, pesticide pollution, as well as to teach them to build their houses with adobe bricks rather than wood.

Also, the biosphere provides important feedbacks to the physical earth system such as control of erosion, moisture transport, etc..

Promising soil management techniques include controlled grazing; mulching with organic matter; applying manure and biosolids; use of cover crops in the rotation cycle; agroforestry; contour farming; hedgerows; terracing; plastic mulch for erosion control; no - till or conservation tillage; retention of crop residue; appropriate use of water and irrigation; and integrated nutrient management, including the judicious use of chemical fertilizers.

Activities include crop rotation, erosion control, soil fertility improvements, as well as the establishment of small agro-businesses, such as small - scale livestock and poultry production.

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This does not include the similarly ambitious planting of trees to control flooding, reduce rainfall runoff to recharge aquifers, and protect soils from erosion.

Since then, the U.S. has developed strict soil conservation and erosion control measures under the auspices of the Soil Conservation Service to prevent events like the Dust Bowl from reoccurring.

Here are just some of the many benefits that these systems provide all at once: green infrastructure absorbs and sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02); filters air and water pollutants; stabilizes soil to prevent or reduce erosion; provides wildlife habitat; decreases solar heat gain; lowers the public cost of stormwater management infrastructure and provides flood control; and reduces energy usage through passive heating and cooling.

Environmental benefits In addition to greenhouse gas mitigation or sequestration, many projects provide a range of additional ecosystem services that enhance biodiversity, preserve natural habitats, control erosion, reduce localized air and water pollution, and more.

For example, controlling erosion can lower sediment pollution and thereby reduce the costs of running a nearby water treatment plant.

The Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 put regulations in place that require coal companies to restore the land after they are done mining to prevent groundwater contamination, control erosion, and get rid of other hControl and Reclamation Act of 1977 put regulations in place that require coal companies to restore the land after they are done mining to prevent groundwater contamination, control erosion, and get rid of other hcontrol erosion, and get rid of other hazards.

Assisted revegetation programs designed to control erosion on affected areas have met with limited success due to their immense expanse and the prevalence of nutrient poor, well - drained and highly erodable sands, in conjunction with the cold, dry climate (Martens 1995; Forbes and Jefferies 1999).»

A great example of this was the introduction of Japanese Kudzu in the southern US for erosion control.

At the same time, the reforestation of degraded land can improve biodiversity, enhance habitats for wildlife, improve air and water quality, provide soil filtration, control erosion, and prevent heat islands.

HR109 (adopted 1999): Requests the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture to recommend the use of hemp fiber soil erosion control blankets whenever feasible.

The accelerating soil erosion over the last century can be seen in the dust bowls that form as vegetation is destroyed and wind erosion soars out of control.

Many studies of carbon sequestration consider potential co-benefits, such as increased soil fertility, erosion control, habitat improvement, and community development (Cook and Beyea 2000; Silver et al. 2000; Sauerbeck 2001; Paul et al. 2002; West and Marland 2002; Lal 2008).