Worse still, the plant is built on sandy soil with a high water table.

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This is a course where the 1st and 18th hole are by the clubhouse, usually by the seaside and on sandy soil.

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But it abuts a lagoon only a few hundred yards from the coast and is on sandy soil, which facilitates drainage and reduces construction costs.

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The light sandy soil is especially perfect for the Spanish red-legged breed on the property.

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On one scouting expedition, he spotted a grove of palms growing in the sandy soil, trees not native to Florida that had sprouted from a batch of coconuts from a boat that had foundered off Cuba.

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The HSE investigation focussed on the possibility of a faulty gas distribution system and found the cast iron mains pipe was sunk in sandy-gravelly soil that was classified as "very aggressive" to "moderately corrosive".

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