Parking Lot Dirt

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A. Most of the soil removed from the site is sand and gravel, so it's been in demand: 3,800 cubic yards went to a Scio Township gravel pit, 4,900 became backfill for a sewer job in Dearborn, and 2,100 were used for a utilities project in Detroit. Another 14,500 cubic yards are stored near Whitmore Lake for future use. Some of that will become backfill for a new sanitary sewer line being installed at the southern end of the library lot project. More will be mixed into the concrete used to build the subterranean decks.   

[Originally published in July, 2010.]

 

I love that a gravel pit has to buy gravel!