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mopinko

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2. my soil is very sandy. it moves A LOT.

Reply to Backseat Driver (Original post)

Fri Jun 25, 2021, 09:05 AM

Jun 2021

i live in what was once the bed of lake michigan.
there is a very slight slope, and the ground water is very close to the surface.

you especially can get top soil moving and the sand sitting still.
my back yard is about 4-5" higher that it was when i moved in in 87.

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Shifting Sands/Soils and Landscape-evolution [View all] Backseat Driver Jun 2021 OP

many years ago, a huge section of the highway to Lake Tahoe from the Carson City side niyad Jun 2021 #1

do you live up that way? mopinko Jun 2021 #3

Not anymore. I lived in Reno at the time. niyad Jun 2021 #4

ah. mopinko Jun 2021 #5

my soil is very sandy. it moves A LOT. mopinko Jun 2021 #2