The hills of northern California have undergone an extensive renovation project – but by Mother Nature. The amount of heavy precipitation has increased since the 70’s and reaching record breaking levels of more than double the amount of rainfall in 1995. Recently, the amount of rain in the northern California area has decreased substantially; however, due to this rainfall, the soil of certain areas in northern California have eroded and washed away. This erosion has created a weakened substructure of land mass that makes it difficult to build and even live on. In fact, many property owners were forced to evacuate due to these mud slides. Environmental consulting firms like Soil Tech have made land reclamation their mission.

Companies like Soil Tech specialize in the methods of native seeding, soil stabilization and soil color mitigation. Native seeding is important because proper rejuvenation of the land will involve focusing on not disrupting the natural environment. This involves growing plants that are native in the region. Growing plants is also important in land reclamation because it is the roots of plants that help to hold the soil together. Even the clear cutting of wilderness in the northern California area has destroyed trees and wildlife creating dead roots that are too weak to keep the soil and minerals of the earth together. Soil stabilization requires the chemical or physical altering of soil to create stronger or more stable land mass. This process also includes rapid native seeding or the temporary seeding of a land mass in order to stabilize its rigidity. This is called rapid seeding because the main purpose is to not create a beautiful landscape but instead to increase the strength of the soil. An environmental reclamation company often times has soil color mitigation capabilities that help to create the look of a natural landscape. Companies like Soil Tech use certain methods to naturally restore the color of the environment using A.C.T or advanced coloring technology that is actually a natural color application that not only adds color to the soil, but it also helps to prevent erosion of the soil from natural elements as well as help to germinate the native seeds.

Northern California has one of the highest amounts of annual precipitation in the entire state – almost three times the amount compared to central California and about eight times the amount of rain when compared to Southern California. So, if you own commercial or residential property in Northern California, look into the methods on how to protect your investment as well as the earth beneath it. The more you understand regarding the land reclamation and restoration process, the more prepared you will be when it comes to restoring the natural environment as well as protecting your investment. So, if you are interested in learning more about the techniques of soil erosion prevention and soil restoration, contact the Soil Tech Environmental Reclamation Company and they will be happy to share with you the knowledge.

Mine shafts may not seem like a danger if you are living in Las Vegas, but in Northern Nevada, Reno, they may be the cause of some concern for locals in the area. On March 5, 2011, a man died after falling 190 feet into an abandoned mine shaft after him and two friends went exploring in a nearby abandoned desert. He left behind five children. Accidents like these are somewhat rare, but with the enormous number of known mine shafts in the area, it is important that in order to prevent occurrences such as these from ever happening again an Environmental Reclamation company be hired and assigned the task of making sure that these abandoned mine shafts in Northern Nevada are buried or repaired through the use of land reclamation techniques.

Although the victim fell over 18 stories, he survived the fall before eventually died from his injuries. Rescuers worked for hours attempting to rescue their victim, but were unable to successfully do so. Even with the help of the US Navy in Fallon, attempts to recover the body of the victim also failed due to the instability of the mine shaft’s one-hundred year old structural foundation. The rescuers made the difficult decision to end their search and rescue attempts after rescuers were crushed by large boulders that gave way after repelling down into the shaft. Although the each of the rescuers survived the small avalanche of stones, one worker had his hard hat split in two by one of these large rocks. After the avalanche of rocks nearly took the lives of these rescuers, they knew that further attempts for rescue may be at the cost of more lives.

There are over 49,000 abandoned mine shafts in the Northern Nevada area that still exist today. Some of them, like the one that just recently took the life of this man, were over a century old.  The owners of the land plan to hire and bring in an environmental reclamation company to permanently seal this particular mine shaft and a few others directly adjacent to it.

Today, our advances in technology should make land reclamation and mine control a thing of the past. Mine shafts are an unnecessary cause of death especially when we have state of the art machines and effective techniques and strategies to prevent mine shafts from ever becoming a recurring problem. An environmental reclamation company is a professional group of workers with the ability to restore the earth while using natural elements that will not interrupt the natural ecosystem. These companies will be very important in the future not only for preventing further mine shaft injuries and death, but also saving the environment and restoring the environment back to its natural state through the use of environmentally friendly restoration techniques.