Sentence examples for dirty soil from inspiring English sources

The Superfund project here, which involved moving many families out of their homes to excavate the dirty soil under their houses, has already cost taxpayers $248 million.

They clean up dirty soil.

A Chevron operative in Ecuador, Diego Borja, boasted on tape that he switched out dirty soil samples for clean ones before presenting them to the court.

Thousands of citizen scientists around the country are getting their hands dirty collecting soil samples after the Internet bestowed a recent burst of attention on a soil sampling project.

"But the water was dirty, the soil was dirty, and I saw oil in the seawater".

This might be commonplace in Copenhagen or Brooklyn, but enticing a generation of skyscraper-raised urbanites to get their hands dirty in soil is no easy feat.

The duck-farmers of Aylesbury went to great lengths to ensure the ducks retained their white colouring, keeping them clear of dirty water, soil with a high iron content and bright sunlight, all of which could discolour the ducks' feathers.

Author Rebecca Kessler is all too familiar with the difficulties and uncertainties of cleaning up dirty urban soil, having embarked on a multiyear project to convert a paved parking lot at her Providence, Rhode Island, home into a beautiful and fruitful garden.

Some things to be careful of include: If you play with the stuffed turtle in the garden, take care not to get it dirty with soil or grass stains.

The outer foliage may well get ravaged by caterpillars and dirtied by soil, but the tightly-packed heart will escape unharmed, ready to be sliced, lightly boiled or steamed and dressed with butter and black pepper – casserole fodder like no other.

Thanks to a National Science Foundation funded initiative called the iPlant Collaborative, for example, there's an emerging generation of data-analyzing "plant biologists" who have never gotten their hands dirty digging in soil or watering seeds.