Land levelling

Land levelling or leveling is the process of flattening land. This process is often undertaken for some of the following reasons:

  1. Roads
  2. Bridges
  3. Buildings
  4. Railroads

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Methods

Land levelling can be undertaken by either adding, removing or moving mass, or by using special constructions like terraces, tunnels, bridges, channels or aqueducts. The process for most simple forms of land levelling would be to first, take a topographic survey of the land to determine the high points and low points of the ground. Once these points are determined the ground should be plowed, then the ground from the high points should be dragged and brought to the low points. [1]

Advantages

There can be various advantages for land levelling including:

Disadvantages

Some of the many disadvantages for land levelling are:

  1. Many animals may lose their homes due to the construction.
  2. The plants and trees in the area can be affected due to the large earth movement.
  3. The flow of storm water over the land can change affecting any bodies of water in the area.

Procedure

The procedure for land levelling is as follows:

Pricing

The pricing of land levelling really depends on many things, so a specific range of prices is not easy to provide. It depends on:

See also

References

  1. ^ Introduction - What You Need to Know About Land Leveling. (n.d.) In Rice Knowledge Bank. Retrieved March 22, 2011, from http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/landprep/index.php/land-leveling-mainmenu-65
  2. ^ "Guidelines for designing and evaluating surface irrigation systems - 6. Land levelling." FAO Home. Natural Resources Management, (n.d.) Retrieved March 25, 2011 from http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0231e/t0231e08.htm
  3. ^ Introduction - What You Need to Know About Land Leveling. (n.d.) In Rice Knowledge Bank. Retrieved March 22, 2011, from http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/landprep/index.php/land-leveling-mainmenu-65