Very large floating structures (VLFS) have attracted the attention of architects, city planners, and engineers because they provide an exciting and environmentally friendly solution for land creation from the sea as opposed to the traditional land reclamation method.
Because conventional reclamation practices under SMCRA in Eastern USA have not enabled forest tree species to reestablish, a new reclamation method called the Forestry Reclamation Approach FRAA) has been developed (Burger et al. 2005; Zipper et al. 2011b).
The recovery percentage of cultivated land with the technology of digging deep to fill shallow is too low, and the shortage and potential contamination of the materials of filling reclamation method is too serious.
An extreme reclamation method, which was developed in Armenia and successfully applied to Calcic Solonetz soils in the Arax river valley, uses diluted sulphuric acid (a waste product of the metallurgical industry) to dissolve CaCO3 contained in the soil.
Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, (born 1595, Tholen, Neth. died April 1683?, London), British engineer who introduced Dutch land-reclamation methods in England and drained the Fens, the low marshy lands in the east of England.
London, England Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, (born 1595, Tholen, Neth. died April 1683?, London) British engineer who introduced Dutch land-reclamation methods in England and drained the Fens, the low marshy lands in the east of England.
Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, (born 1595, Tholen, Neth. died April 1683?, London) British engineer who introduced Dutch land-reclamation methods in England and drained the Fens, the low marshy lands in the east of England.
