Sentence examples for constructing a berm from inspiring English sources

Constructing a berm on the catch bench is a popular method for the mitigation of rockfall hazards in open pit mining.

Over the course of the summer, the group successfully organized nine community volunteer work days – working to weed and construct a berm boarder of wood chips around the butterfly garden and rectangular herb garden.

President Bush acknowledged serious problems in both Anbar and Baghdad yesterday, revealing that U.S. and Iraqi forces are constructing an earthen berm around the capital city of 5 million people and reinforcing checkpoints to try to stop the inflow of insurgent bombs.

Sand was scraped from the lower beach to construct a sand berm that deflected the tidal current away from the endangered property.

At the city water plant, which lies just east of the levee gap, Lumberton's public works department used excavators in the days before Florence hit the coast to construct a giant berm around the facility's water pumps and backup generators.

But it also dispatched dozens of workers and contractors with heavy equipment to construct an earthen berm that would divert the mix of water and coal ash away from the lake.

In its initial phase, according to Mr. Kelly, more than one million cubic yards of sand were pumped onto Monmouth Beach, deepening the beachfront and constructing a 100-foot-wide, 10-foot-high sand berm as a buffer between the waterline and the sea wall.

Early last week, city officials requested permission from CSX Corp., one of the nation's largest railroad companies, to construct a temporary sandbag berm across the railroad tracks that run under Interstate 95 in southwest Lumberton, filling a gap in the city's levee system.

Raising a berm in front of the fastest-flowing glacier in Greenland — constructing an underwater wall 3 miles long and 350 feet high in arctic waters — would be a comparable challenge.

The main idea concerned with the design of berm breakwaters is to construct a less expensive structure with reshaping berm.

Build a berm to hold the water in.