Local people removed the topsoil to reveal the bedrock of the South Dorset Ridgeway underneath.
They can then use the ponds to irrigate their farms throughout the year, which preserves topsoil and prevents runoff downstream.
The company stockpiles the topsoil which contains the nutrients, organic debris and plant seeds that are stripped away during mining.
It was created by local people in 1808 by removing the topsoil to reveal the bedrock of the South Dorset Ridgeway underneath.
Subsoil and topsoil moisture in the Plains states are well below the levels of last year, though recent rains have improved things a little.
Conservatives will make a big mistake if they think only of going wide and shallow, seeking more votes at the topsoil level of politics.
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For some agricultural land, we see the almost unbelievable spectacle of power shovels removing a layer of contaminated topsoil to be stored for 40 years.
Politics is only the shallow topsoil of the American political debate.
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Besides pressure- hosing urban areas, this would involve removing about 5cm of topsoil from local farms as well as all the dead leaves in caesium-laden forests.
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But any instability caused by having all that topsoil stored 20 feet above the waterline is counteracted by the 198, 000 gallons of diesel fuel in the hold.
After the dunes are reshaped, the topsoil is spread over the bare sand in a thin layer, triggering the natural processes that facilitate the recovery of the dunes.
Tourism accounts for an estimated 10% increase in wood consumption, according to the Nepalese government, which leads to an estimated 240 million cubic metres of mountain topsoil lost on Everest every year, further triggering forest depletion.
The thing is, last time around, when we did get the Dust Bowl, we were really only just beginning to understand about the effects of ploughing with tractors on the stability of that topsoil.
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But the real work of conservatives now is not at that superficial, topsoil level, it is in the deeper soil of policy and the tap root of values where conservatives need to toil now.
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And the best of times this is not: The ill effects of a years-long drought have been exacerbated by the tradition of grazing herd animals indiscriminately over a large region, so that topsoil never replenishes.
As a result huge amount of marginal land has been taken in as pasture, overgrazed to the point of exhaustion, and now farmers are being forced to watch the topsoil literally blow away on the spring winds.
Keldysh recited a poem in Russian, Mstislav made a joke about Gogol, then we sealed up this weird stew with cheesecloth mesh, as we do the rest of the topsoil, to keep it from absconding in the zero-G.
Villagers have removed 5cm of topsoil from one patch of land, but because radioactive particles continue to blow from the surrounding trees, the level of radiation remains high about one microsievert an hour even if lower than in nearby areas.
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Forest nomads are losing their way of life, fish stocks have dwindled as topsoil has been washed into rivers, and wood is denied to those who want to build houses and boats, says Forests Monitor, an environmental group.
Learning to ferociously fight, to dial up Beast Girl and fend for ourselves, takes us into the basement of our being, into a lower center of gravity far below the topsoil of the nice lady camouflage, the cover-girl veneer.
This was caused by the collapse of food prices with the loss of export markets after World War I and years of drought that were marked by huge dust storms that blackened skies at noon and scoured the land of topsoil.
Inspectors are still at work in Iran: this week they took samples at what the government admits is a military site (though not a nuclear one), called Lavizan, in Tehran, where recent satellite photographs showed that buildings had been demolished and topsoil carted away.
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