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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. Geotextile - Wikipedia

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    A silt fence on a construction site.. Geotextiles and related products have many applications and currently support many civil engineering applications including roads, airfields, railroads, embankments, retaining structures, reservoirs, canals, dams, bank protection, coastal engineering and construction site silt fences or to form a geotextile tube.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 'It could have been my son': Parents to protest over students ...

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    Parents have organized a protest at a Cracker Barrel in Waldorf, Maryland after special education students were denied dine-in service.

  8. He had no family. He was not famous. Yet hundreds attended ...

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    He had no living family. He was not famous. He lived alone. Yet on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. and watched him laid to rest.

  9. Week 12 Overreaction: Georgia vs. the Playoff Committee ... - AOL

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    And of course, they share their picks for Small Sample Heisman and Say Something Nice. (1:09) Georgia vs Tennessee (11:04) Figuring out the College Football Playoff (26:34) The Big 12 title race