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  2. Silt fence - Wikipedia

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    The stakes are installed on the downhill side of the fence, and the bottom edge of the fabric can be trenched into the soil and backfilled on the uphill side, although it is quite difficult to move the trenched "spoil" from the downside to the upside of the trench. The design/placement of the silt fence should create a pooling of runoff, which ...

  3. Sediment control - Wikipedia

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    Silt Fence installed on a construction site.. A sediment control is a practice or device designed to keep eroded soil on a construction site, so that it does not wash off and cause water pollution to a nearby stream, river, lake, or sea.

  4. Sediment basin - Wikipedia

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    Sediment trap installed on a construction site.. A sediment trap is a temporary settling basin installed on a construction site to capture eroded or disturbed soil that is washed off during rain storms, and protect the water quality of a nearby stream, river, lake, or bay.

  5. Check dam - Wikipedia

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    Concrete check dams in Austria A steel check dam A common application of check dams is in bioswales, which are artificial drainage channels that are designed to remove silt and pollution from runoff. A check dam is a small, sometimes temporary, dam constructed across a swale , drainage ditch , or waterway to counteract erosion by reducing water ...

  6. Land drains - Wikipedia

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    Many modern land drains are created utilising rigid or flexible plastic pipes pierced with holes, laid in pea gravel. (The pea gravel is pea-sized pebbles without sharp points to damage the pipe.) Geotextile material can surround the gravel to keep out silt. This can be installed in an excavated trench.

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    What could really move the needle on electric vehicle sales? "The three-row electric vehicle market is so important for EV sales in the U.S.," Ed Kim, president and chief analyst of AutoPacific ...

  8. Under the previous playoff format, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in each conference got a bye in the first round of the playoffs. That changed with the expanded playoff first instituted in the 2020 ...

  9. Slurry wall - Wikipedia

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    While a trench is being excavated to create a form for a wall, it is simultaneously filled with slurry (usually a mixture of bentonite and water). The dense but liquid slurry prevents the trench from collapsing by providing outward pressure, which balances the inward hydraulic forces and also retards water flow into the trench.