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Figure 8.11
Campus quadrangle composed of a series of watershed-like shallow cells, each with a
catch basin located at the lowest elevation within its cell
puttinG it aLL toGether
Site grading is as much an art as it is an analytical process. Typical land-
forms were reviewed in this chapter, presented as an idea, like colors of
paint or a kit of parts. The kit of the designer for creating site-grading
plans is a variety of landforms woven into a well-organized and seam-
less site-grading design. The parts in the kit are landforms found in
nature and adapted to the needs of a site-grading design scheme. The
landforms can be applied in solving site-grading problems and thus cre-
ating a new landscape. In Figure 8.12 the various contour patterns that
translate into landform signatures are outlined, demonstrating how a
