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Sand for both sites is being dredged onto a hopper barge from a borrow pit 35 to 55 feet deep in the ocean about 3,500 feet offshore from the San Dieguito River outlet at Del Mar.
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
Lake Sandy Jo is located in Gary’s Black Oak section on a 50-acre site at 3615 W. 25th Ave., which includes the former 40-foot-deep water-filled borrow pit.
—Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2022
Baldwin County: $4 million to convert an existing borrow pit into new wetlands that will improve water quality and reduce flooding in the Magnolia River watershed.
—al, 15 Oct. 2021
Under the new regulations, county commissioners would have to approve a permit for a borrow pit greater than 5,000 cubic yards, down from 10,000 cubic yards under the previous rules.
—Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2021
Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
Lake Sandy Jo is located in Gary’s Black Oak section on a 50-acre site at 3615 W. 25th Ave., which includes the former 40-foot-deep water-filled borrow pit.
—Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2022
Baldwin County: $4 million to convert an existing borrow pit into new wetlands that will improve water quality and reduce flooding in the Magnolia River watershed.
—al, 15 Oct. 2021
Under the new regulations, county commissioners would have to approve a permit for a borrow pit greater than 5,000 cubic yards, down from 10,000 cubic yards under the previous rules.
—Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2021
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“Borrow pit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borrow%20pit. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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