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Te rrace cut into slope
Slope terracing
New uniform slope surface
Excavated and filled area
Original surface
Fill
Excavation limits/fill subgrade
Original surface
Cut area
New uniform slope surface
Cut
Slope shaping by cutting and/or filling
Key
Filled area
Notch
Slope keying for fill placement
Filled area
Counterweighting toe
of slope
FIGURE 8.26
Bank-grading. (From NRCS, Streambank and shoreline protection. Chapter 16 in
Engineering
Field Handbook
, Natural Resources Conservation Service, p. 55, 1996a.)
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