Construction-site sediment can run 40,000 times farmland erosion rates

Evidence

The Maryland Water Pollution Control Commission also hired a former survey scientist to report on the problem of soil erosion in fast-growing suburbs. The report concluded that “the tonnage of sediment derived from an acre of ground under construction in developments and highways may exceed 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount eroded from farms and woodlands in an equivalent period of time.” — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 823

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Apparent farm solvency conceals ongoing topsoil loss to erosion — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 425; Housing construction sites erode at hundreds of times farmland rates — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 820; The erosion crisis migrated from farmland to suburban construction by 1965 — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 825

Broader Connections

• The erosion crisis migrated from farmland to suburban construction by 1965 #corroborates (0.82) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 825