Sentence examples for ft deep from inspiring English sources

The liquid portion of the lake was only about 1.5 2 m (5 6.5 ft) deep and underlain by a 6-m (20-ft) layer of muck.

Seventeen dams and locks along the waterway, which is 250 ft (75 m) wide and 9 ft deep, create a large supply of hydroelectric power.

The plateau is about 250km (150 miles) wide by 400km (250 miles) long, and the area around it is close to 5,000m (16,400 ft) deep.

It would have involved 181 huge turbines each requiring concrete bases 20 ft deep, roads and cables, and would have destroyed a swathe of this rare peat moorland.

The bay, 165 330 ft deep, is a submerged crater created out of a violent volcanic eruption that left an isthmus approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) wide on the south.

The dyke was not so much a fortification as a demarcation line, consisting as it did of a plain bank (sometimes 60 feet [18 metres] high) and a ditch (12 ft deep) facing Wales.

Torrential rain over the festive period has caused a 130-ft deep and 160-ft-wide sink-hole to form in the Peak District.

To avoid this, in the 1960s builders of apartment blocks in Norilsk began drilling holes up to 100-ft deep and pouring reinforced concrete piles that stuck into the permanently frozen soil below.

Manure wastes from the CAFO are stored in 12-ft deep concrete manure pits that lie beneath each swine house.

The Love Canal is a rectangular 16-acre, 10-ft deep landfill centered in a residential neighborhood in northwestern New York State (NYS).

The CAFO consists of two tunnel-ventilated swine houses built atop 12-ft deep concrete pits where swine waste is stored before periodic siphoning into a transport truck for off-farm disposal by land application.