Sentences with phrase «yard of soil»

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

The Town Board on March 5 granted an excavation permit to Headriver LLC — which is building a 170,000 - square - foot Walmart just west of Applebee's — that authorizes the importation of 4,615 cubic yard of soil and the exportation of 4,075 cubic yards of soil.

Usually, she knew well more than they assumed, but she also took the opportunity to ask questions like, «And how many yards of soil would I need for a job like that?»

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.

Not exact matches

«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.»

The Real Milk Paint Co. is committed to making the safest paints and finishes in the industry — so safe that disposing of unused Real Milk Paint in your garden or yard will actually fertilize and nourish the soil.

Piers Morgan doesn't know his gluteus maximus from a hemispherically shaped, lack of soil in his front yard.

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.

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.

The soil would be moved to a nearby designated site, one that sits a few yards from Smokes Creek and 1,500 feet from the shores of Lake Erie.

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.

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.

You can customize it to your yard, too, by telling it what kind of soils and plants are in certain areas and how much sunlight each gets.

We found heavy contamination of dust in people's homes and heavy contamination of the yard soil.

However, some yards have DDT and PBBs deeper in the soil, which could be due to Velsicol's offer of free fill dirt to their neighbors decades ago.

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.

So the soil in your yard likely contains at least 4 times the amount of naturally occurring lead than Bentonite clay, but even the trace amounts present in clay would be a concern, except...

We also make an effort to go barefoot outside in our own yard (that we do not spray with pesticides or fertilizers) to get the benefit of the beneficial soil bacteria.

One of our five Newfoundland dogs picks up a food bowl with uneaten kibble in it, carry it way across the yard, eat the kibble then carry the bowl to one of our trees and fills the bowl with soil, grass and mulch.

Establish a litter box by tilling the soil or placing sand in an out - of - the - way spot in your yard.

If your animals spend a fair amount of time in a grassy yard, there is a biological control that can be used to prey on the flea larvae in the soil.

Keeping cats out of garden soil, children's sandboxes, flower beds and moist shady areas of the yard.

Today it is a challenge to keep dogs at home, especially since the canine penchant for digging, disobeying, making noise, soiling yards, wearing paths in the lawn, escaping through open doors, and other inconvenient habits put a damper on the fun of owning a pet.

These high risk dogs often have one general thing in common: they go beyond a lack of manners to destructive behaviors ranging from soiling the rug and chewing the furniture to excavating the yard, escaping, or acting aggressively towards family and friends.

The aural quality and presence of Killzone 2 is evidently heard in every action you perform, be it reloading your weapon, firing said weapon, slashing your trusty knife, the crunch of the soil underfoot or the tapping of your boots on cold and hard pavement, the distinct sound of a rusty old Helghast assault rifle being reloaded from behind cover 10 yards away... regardless whether it's voice, sound effect, music (an orchestral style which hearkens back to Michael Giacchino's Medal of Honor days), or environmental audio, all of it was created and put to use in such a top - notch way that there is no ignoring the fact that you surely are jacks - of - all - trades, Guerrilla Games.

She describes how the first hole (and presumably the new one) appear to have formed as methane is released from a warming mix of ice, water and soil, building up pressure that explosively pushed out the top of the hole, heaving chunks of earth many yards in some directions.

Not all of these shade trees will be well suited to your yard, as the length of the growing season, the frost dates, the temperatures, the annual rainfall, and the type of soil in your yard will all vary by location.

Unless everyone is producing their own food in their back yard, renewing the soil every year from biomass, which we know now is physically impossible given the population of the Earth, then it simply won't work.

We have also installed and activated dozens of other spaces, including terraces, back yards, tree pits and vacant lots with soil and plants.

A good quality potting soil can make all the difference in container vegetable gardening, as it will be loose and friable enough for optimal root growth, will hold water for longer periods of time than plain ol' dirt from the yard, and will also dry quickly enough (and maintain air spaces within it) to allow the plant's roots to get oxygen.

«That part of the yard has been a garden for decades, and its soil has been built up significantly.»

Signs of trouble Cracks in concrete, pooped - up paving stones, puddles in the yard, eroded gullies, and soil slumps.

It's just a typical urban yard: A long skinny space (12 feet by 50 feet), with rocky soil, eclipsed by an enormous maple tree and featuring sparse grass between patches of dirt.