They dismantled the fort, used fill dirt to raise the site 17 feet (5m), and rebuilt it.
In addition, because of its low altitude and consequent problems with flooding, the peninsula was reinforced with fill dirt.
Eventually in 1975, a federal judge ruled that the fill dirt could stay but limited the use of the land to a marina or boat dock.
Most of these became part of the fill dirt forming the base of the current highway and city.
I can get free clean fill dirt.
It often spreads locally when its hardy seeds are transported along watercourses or in fill dirt.
The mesh is laid on top of the fill dirt in a pothole, and asphalt is poured over it.
Some stamp sand land has been covered with clean fill dirt and used for housing developments.
To build the dwellings, materials had to be brought to the alcove, such as fill dirt to level the cave floor, stones and mortar.
The building sits on a man-made island constructed from fill dirt excavated from other construction projects.