The steep slopes eroded, dumping dirt into the pools.
Construction companies have dumped dirt here since before he bought the property on which he is standing.
Vance Reeves, 30, says the agency's workers killed four walnut trees in his yard and dumped dirt on his porch.
The state environmental agency and some experts say that low levels of chemicals and metals are safe and should not preclude dumping dirt in quarries.
One day, as he was dumping dirt into a sifter, the cloud of dust transported him back to the morning of August 5th.
Ms. Ayer didn't endorse the trendy urban garden fix of spreading cardboard over the earth (or over patches of sod) and dumping dirt and mulch on top.
In 2000, Mr. Cassilly bicycled past the site, the former Lafarge Cement Factory in northern St . Louis where he spotted trucks rolling up and dumping dirt.
It turns out that construction workers had unwittingly dumped dirt on a rock that is special enough to have its own name in Icelandic folklore: Alfkonusteinn.
Then they toiled to repair damage from the pounding river, dumping dirt where the water boiled through, sandbagging around leaks and propping up sections so saturated that the earth slid down, sometimes in sections hundreds of feet long.
And last month, the group's Paw Tracks record label released its first non-Animal CD, "The Doldrums," by an oblique California singer-songwriter who calls himself Ariel Pink; he dumps dirt on his bruised and warped 70's-style rock ballads, then dares them to shine anyway.
