Unlike showy garden specimens, alpine plants fill slopes where little else but mountain sheep or goats travel.

Soil nail components may also be used to stabilize retaining walls or existing fill slopes (embankments); this is normally undertaken as a remedial measure.

He said that the city had seen no evidence that septic systems on filled slopes with a 15 percent grade were any less effective than those on a natural slope of the same angle.

Thurston's theorem on hyperbolic Dehn surgery states that, provided a finite collection of filling slopes are avoided, the remaining Dehn fillings on hyperbolic links are hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

This street was built in 1935 using roadcuts and filled slopes on the canyon's steep slopes, and was named after Michael O'Shaughnessy, who was for many years the Chief Engineer of the City.

Proposed modifications may include such things as vegetation removal, using various types of earth materials in construction, applying loads to shallow or deep foundations, constructing cut or fill slopes and other grading, and modifying ground and surface water flow.