Mounds of ‘Borrow Material’ lay prepositioned at a worksite in Greene County, Ark., where construction workers, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers – Memphis District, will use it to construct seepage berms and fill an existing ditch supporting the levee. In the background, a dump truck operator positions more borrow material. Borrow material is dirt that is specially selected because of its composition and trucked into a project area. Engineers use these specialty berms to isolate an area on the protected side of a levee where water finds its to the surface from the unprotected sid
Mounds of ‘Borrow Material’ lay prepositioned at a worksite in Greene County, Ark., where construction workers, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers – Memphis District, will use it to construct seepage berms and fill an existing ditch supporting the levee. In the background, a dump truck operator positions more borrow material. Borrow material is dirt that is specially selected because of its composition and trucked into a project area. Engineers use these specialty berms to isolate an area on the protected side of a levee where water finds its to the surface from the unprotected side.
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Keywords: construction, engineer, levee, revetment, usace
