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The foundation for the Pequest Fill would require 6.625 million cubic yards of fill material. This was far more than could be provided by classic cut-and-fill techniques, which require a relatively even balance between the amount of dirt and rock material that is removed from an area of the right-of-way to provide a cut through a hill and the ...
Since the reservoir was at a low level the dam was in no immediate danger of failure, however it could not be safely refilled until the damage was repaired. By August 1982, the area had been stabilized with 1,400,000 cubic yards (1,100,000 m 3) of additional fill (known as a "buttressing berm"), at a cost of $6.1 million. In July 1984 another ...
Rising 585 feet (178 m) above its foundations and 560 feet (170 m) above the Tuolumne River, [21] New Don Pedro is a massive earth and rock fill structure containing 16,750,000 cubic yards (12,810,000 m 3) of material. [2] The 1,900-foot (580 m) long dam is 40 feet (12 m) wide at the crest and over 2,800 feet (850 m) wide at the base. [1]
Watercolour by T.T.Bury (1833) The cutting was 20 ft (6.1 m) wide and 70 ft (21.3 m) deep. Construction required the removal of 480,000 cubic yards (370,000 m 3 ) of sandstone. Olive Mount cutting , Liverpool, England
[1] Fill dirt is usually subsoil (soil from beneath topsoil) and underlying soil parent material which has little soil organic matter or biological activity. Fill dirt is taken from a location where soil is being removed as a part of leveling an area for construction; it may also contain sand, rocks, and stones, as well as earth.
5-W walking dragline, with a 5-cubic-yard (3.8 m 3) bucket and produced until around 1970. 1150RB walking dragline, transported to Britain in 1946 as part of the Marshall Plan . It was used to remove overburden at various mines around the UK, lastly at St Aidan's opencast coal mine, Yorkshire, until the River Aire burst its banks and flooded ...
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Grand Coulee Dam's spillway is 1,650 feet (500 m) long and is an overflow, drum-gate controlled type with a 1,000,000 cu ft/s (28,000 m 3 /s) maximum capacity. [73] A record flood in May and June 1948 flooded the lowlands below the dam and highlighted its limited flood control capability at the time, [ 82 ] as its spillway and turbines hit a ...