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Best Floating Plants for your Pond

Floating plants are excellent ways to add shade and shelter to your pond while also filtering out toxins and providing clean water.

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Best Oxygenating Plants for your Pond

Plants are essential players when it comes to properly oxygenating, aerating, and filtering your pond’s water.

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Best Marginal Plants for your Pond

Marginal and emergent plants are essential parts of any healthy pond garden. 

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Best Bog Plants for your Pond

Bog plants, or terrestrial plants, are those which are perfectly satisfied with their roots in saturated

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Common Pond Plant Diseases and Pests

Both black and white fly spread and grow incredibly quick.

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Choosing Plants for your Pond

Just how many plants do I need? Maintaining around 60% plant coverage over and within your pond

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Top Tips for Planting Water Gardens

Consider the whole year. Will the plants you’re choosing be able to last through cold winters?

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Different Types of Pond Plants

These plants are also known as "edge" plants. These plants take advantage of the abundant moisture present

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Tailings vs Interburden vs Overburden

While overburden represents the largest single stream of waste generated by most surface mining operations

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Liner Selection for Overburden Containment

Containment of any material produced during mining begins with a geomembrane. 

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Why is Overburden Difficult to Contain?

While the term overburden may indicate a uniform composition and standard features, the actual material is anything but constant.

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Overburden Removal Cost and How Containment Affects It

While the term overburden may refer to practically any amount of material lying over a valuable deposit

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Risks of Mishandling Overburden Material

Mining is necessary to extract the essential ores, oil, and coal we rely on every day.

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Potential Uses for Overburden

Many industries start out producing large volumes of what appears to be waste material

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Careful Overburden Handling is Key to Oil Sands Success

With oil sand mining facilities producing some of the largest volumes of overburden today

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How is Overburden Produced?

Overburden is a natural consequence of almost all mining procedures.

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Oregon Backyard Ponds

There are many different types of ponds you can build in your backyard in Oregon.

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Oregon Stormwater Pond

Oregon is known for its frequent rain, but the western part of the state is the region where torrential downpours can be a serious concern.

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Oregon Pond Expenses and Permits

Pond installations cost between $1,200 and $9,000, but on average, ponds will cost around the $3,000 mark.

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Oregon Pond Plants

Aquatic plants are used for aesthetic appeal–they stay afloat on ponds, adding beauty.

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Oregon Agriculture Ponds

Oregon is a great place for owning big spaces of land, growing plants and crops, and having access to all types of water sources

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Oregon Retention and Detention Ponds

Oregon’s need for water storage and good stormwater management is substantial.

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Water Features for your Oregon Ponds

There are many amazing waterfalls in Oregon, which gives the perfect opportunity to add that aesthetic appeal to your property!

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Oregon Ponds: Where to put my pond?

The state of Oregon is known for its beautiful natural landscape, abounding in countless waterfalls, mountains, lakes, and forests.

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Top Questions About Fire Ponds and Firefighting

A fire pond serves as a crucial support in case of fires. 

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