Sentences with phrase «retaining wall around»

More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.

Also planned for next March is the repair of the lakefront retaining wall around the Adler Planetarium, where steel sheet piles will be driven 72 feet into the lake bed using 150 foot cranes.

Better yet, we just fill the special cube shaped bags someone suggested here with sea water and seal them and build liquid filled retaining walls around «sinking» countries and turn wind turbines into giant sprinklers that pump water out of the oceans and spray it on land!

Not exact matches

The truth is somewhere in - between, as the Quays have retained a bit of their glacial patience and a marked affection for created environments but have miscalculated the extent to which our fascination with animate clockworks translates into a commensurate fascination with people sitting around, staring at a wall.

As Genger's forms flow down the hillside, they move over stone retaining walls and weave around the oaks, ash and pecan trees, palms and mountain laurels and traverse pedestrian walkways.

Several years ago, local officials noticed large cracks forming in some of the retaining walls surrounding Jardim Gramacho — a sign that the landfill had exceeded its capacity and had become a threat to the neighborhoods and watersheds around it.