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Land Reclamation aka reclamation ground aka land fill - Coggle Diagram
Land Reclamation aka reclamation ground aka land fill
Purpose
Creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds, lake beds
Increase availability of arable land
Expanding the carrying capacity of land
Techniques
Direct dumping
Used when the seabed is deep or the underlying seabed soil is soft
Rehandling pit
Used to transport sand by barge and dumping the fill material like clay or rock just temporary in the pit for storage
Dry method
suitable for filing material from land sourse
Sand spreading
Spreading sand over water with sufficiently high water level above seabed, each grain will fall gradually through water and rest gently on seabed
Hydraulic reclamation
Used for carried filling out from an offshore source or rehandling pit from dredger
Plant & Machineries
dragline excavator
backhoe
trucks
shovel
Materials
clay, sand, hill cut, boulders, cobbles, gravel, rock
Method
Draining of submerged land
reclaim wetlands or land for agricultural use
Deep cement mixing
material displaced by either dredging or draining may be contaminated
Infilling
involves filling the area with large amounts of heavy rocks and/or cement, then filling with clay and dirt until the desired height is reached
Land dredging
removal of sediments and debris from the bottom of water
