Soils 497A Urban Soils

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Soils 497AUrban Soils

• Landscape Stability 1
• Site Constraints

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Before soil design is accomplished, the soil
currently on site must be dealt with. There are
many practical considerations to reforming the
land. Six objectives relating to topographic
reconstruction or major land reshaping include

• law and regulation compliance
• material management
• creation of stable landscapes
• both the soils internal and surface water
  management
• erosion control
• long term maintenance

(Toy and Black, 2000).
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Site Constraints
There are two constraint areas that must be
reviewed prior to developing an area.

• On-Site Constraints
• Off-Site Constraints

Which can have both PHYSICAL and USE Constraints
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On-site Physical Concerns

• Topography
• Depth to Bedrock
• Depth and Type of Fill
• Utility Location and Depth
• Microclimate
• Current Surface Flow
• Current Volunteer Vegetation

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Off-site Physical Concerns

• Adjacent Topography
• Adjacent Surface Flow
• Adjacent Buildings
• Adjacent Water Bodies

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USE Concerns

• Legal Boundaries
• Federal, State, Local Regulations
• Adjacent Highway Runoff
• SAFETY Concerns.

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If this is on your site, you need to make sure it
stays on the site!!!! Use of Erosion and
Sediment controls such as silt fence, hay bales
To stop mass movement like this one will need
to terrace the stockpile with several lines of
silt fence.
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THE ENGINEERED SLOPE AS APPLIED TO THE GETTY
CENTER, VIEW 1
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THE ENGINEERED SLOPE AS APPLIED TO THE GETTY
CENTER, VIEW 2
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