A Sunday newspaper claimed David Smith had spent the past 15 years filling land at his home in the village of Seaham with dogs' carcasses.
High levels of disturbances to the urban lakes from urban development in the past and recent years, such as lake filling, land use change, shoreline encroachment, and garbage dump, have caused nearly 10 - 20% of urban lakes loss in megacity Jakarta.
San Francisco's Marina district was particularly hard hit because it had been built on filled land (comprising loose, sandy soil), and the unreinforced masonry buildings in Santa Cruz (many of which were 50 to 100 years old) failed completely.
"The first idea consists of building a commercial center of the scale of Rockefeller Center on the lower tip of Welfare Island and on filled land extending south to Belmont Island, at Forty-second Street," he said.
One second lieutenent wanted to know what to do with soil that has only sparee grass growing; a sergeant wanted to know what to do about stumps in his garden plot; a pfc asked what about filled land.
As an example, he pointed to the development of an 1,100-unit 1,100-unitm that fills land in the condominiumhe cithathat was bulldozed ofillsms, where he said some of his university's emplandes now line.
According to the geomorphologic classification of the Kanto region (Wakamatsu et al., 2005), areas around Tokyo Bay are mainly covered by filled land.
High SC values also appeared in groups 3b, 6, and 9 for Holocene tephra; groups 5, 6, and 7 for rocky strath terraces; groups 8, 10, and 11 for sand bars and dunes in coastal plains; and groups 6, 8, and 10 for filled land.
Stores and offices fill land that not so long ago was garden".
Parts of Liberty Station and Point Loma Village are also fill land, reclaimed from sand spits and wetlands surrounding the Bay.
In 2000, construction began on several new duplexes to fill land that was unused, resulting in housing for several dozen additional students.
