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loose material

Soil or rock in a blasted, broken, or loose state.
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Dirt Connections serves the Virginia, Maryland and DC areas with a variety of residential and commercial construction services, with a special focus on dirt and loose material delivery.
The drilling of twenty shallow drill holes will offer a comprehensive data set for understanding the nature of the regolith (loose material above bedrock) and bedrock for construction footings and cut and fill calculations, and a more detailed understanding of the bedrock geology of the construction sites.
LVM said it would take about $10 million to stabilize the bank at that location with erosion protection, reducing the slope's incline, and removing loose material. It would likely be cheaper to realign Tutela Heights Road, the report noted.
They also said that the rock can't be spinning too rapidly, asserting that neither should it be the speed demon nor can it be a heap of loose material, like a rubble pile.
If the cracks are close to the cornice and you can't get a tape on it, remove any loose material and fill with a flexible filler, such as caulk, then re-paint.
A square-ended shovel is best for carrying and spreading loose material such as compost, and scooping up debris from hard surfaces.
This compacting of the loose material reliably raises the feeding capacity by a factor of two--three whilst maintaining unchanged high product quality.
The presence of loose material below the ground layer was ignored.