cubic yard


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If CCA is separated by strength classes the quantity of "as received" CCA can be increased to 900 pounds per cubic yard, assuming that strength classes exceeding 3,000 psi will be used for RMC.
One cubic yard (27 cubic feet) of mulch covers 108 square feet with a layer 3 inches deep.
More than 6,500 cubic yards of leaf humus is for sale to local gardeners.
As the yearly capacity requirement reaches 240,000 cubic yards per year, the annual revenue to the town should be an average of $1,260,000, he said.
Nut hulls are cheap; if you live in a nutgrowing area, they're usually available for about $10 a cubic yard. Look for pecan hulls in Visalia, California; Green Valley, Arizona; or Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The area recycling rate is estimated at 19 percent currently, RICWMA will administer the program and fund it through a 40-cent per cubic yard solid-waste fee assessed at landfills in Rock Island County.
Each bag of RubberStuff[R] uses the rubber from three scrap tires, while a cubic yard uses rubber from 80 scrap tires.
Dry ground scrap wallboard weighs about 400 pounds per cubic yard. The application rates would then be as follows:
Cat's smallest loader is typically equipped with buckets holding around one cubic yard, while its largest loader (used in massive mining operations) can be equipped with a bucket that carries 40 cubic yards of material.
avoided nearly all of the cost of this process, typically $9 per cubic yard including transportation.
The succulents are composted and sold to landscapers for $2.50 a cubic yard. Leaves and grass are mixed together in roughly equal proportions and piled into windrows that are 300 feet long by six feet high by 12 feet wide.
Reportedly, this project features 20,000 cubic yards of structural concrete, 40,000 cubic yards of concrete paving, 35,000 tons of asphalt, and 1.1 million cubic yards of earthwork.
That plan fell about 100,000 cubic yards of clean soil short of the goal for 2018.