Over the next five months, the park's complexion will change from strips of soil to a bed of grass to a field of brilliantly colored flowers.
The 38,0000 hectare chalk plateau is a haven for wildlife with its patchwork of close-cropped grass, golden oilseed rape and small strips of soil ploughed bare to create stone curlew nesting plots.
In the north lie wide areas of worn-down ancient rocks, stripped of soil by the glaciers but compensated in some measure by the coastal plains created by uplift.
Tables of soil volumes that will be salvaged, material excavated and backfilled, and hectares of areas stripped of soil and graded with soil replaced and seeded are presented for each of the first 5 years, and in 5-year blocks thereafter, until the end of mining.
A strip of exposed soil with traces of uranium found at the driving range in Cantiague Park, a Nassau County park behind the former factory, has been paved over recently, the department said.
In the late period of use two separate areas of graves were found in rectangular shaped areas (3.86 × 1.65 and 4.18 × 1.40 m, respectively), each with ca. 11 graves and two collective tombs buried in two trenches (3.92 × 1.43 m) separated by a strip of sterile soil between them.
Little attention has been paid to the effects of buffer strips on soil quality.
This requires clearing surface and sometimes aerial fuels from a strip of land and then digging down to mineral soil to stop a creeping or surface fire.
Strip mining, removal of soil and rock (overburden) above a layer or seam (particularly coal), followed by the removal of the exposed mineral.
