Abstract: A manufacturing method is provided for producing a carbon material adsorbing nitrate nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen or a fluoride ion through an ion exchange with a chloride ion. Plant material can be impregnated with a calcium chloride solution. Subsequently, the plant material can be carbonized to enable the plant material to support chloride ions that can provide ion exchanging capability with nitrite nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, and a fluoride ion via calcium. The temperature of the carbonization permits the deposits of a calcium chloride compound within 2% to 25% by weight as a functional group in a carbonized material having ash components.

Abstract: The laying of a vegetation mat in close contact with a clad surface is achieved. The vegetation mat has a net, which prevents freezing or flow-away of vegetation material without the need for stretching a separate net. The mat comprises a layer of vegetation material selected from the group consisting of soil improvement material, fertilizer, organic material, vegetation seeds and combinations thereof, a front and back sheet, which are capable of being at least partly decomposed and are coupled together to wrap the vegetation material. A net having a mesh size permitting the budding and growth of the vegetation seeds, is provided on the front surface of the front sheet.

Abstract: A mat with seed is produced by adhering turf seeds onto a nonwoven fabric. Water-soluble adhesives are prevented from being absorbed by the nonwoven fabric to ensure uniform turf surfaces of good appearance. The water-soluble nonwoven fabric is superior in dispersibility, and comprises long fibers having a reduced width and bound with a binder comprising a water-soluble resin and a very small quantity of water repellent reagent such that the long fibers are intertwined in one direction only by foams of water-soluble starch material having a diameter of 7 mm or less.

Abstract: A net for grassing obtained by knitting and weaving wefts having an appointed width in a texture less than said width by means of a large number of warps and having mountain portions and valley portions randomly formed on a right side and a reverse side thereof.Earth and sand and sprayed materials can be prevented from being washed away in the first stage of the protective construction for a face of slope.

Abstract: A hydrophobic material used in the construction of a culver for improving the drainage of the culvert. The hydrophobic material comprises a textile or knit fabric, preferably biodegradable, having large and small mesh portions. A soil-aggregating agent is adhered to the small mesh portions of the textile or knit fabric. The hydrophobic material can be coated with a water soluble film to prevent the soil-aggregating agent from being removed during construction or handling.The hydrophobic material used for the drainage of a culvert is capable of keeping the water-penetrating property of the culvert for a long time.

Abstract: A soil, which has been regulated in particle-diameter, is blended with a hydraulic material and water or an aqueous solution of synthetic resin emulsion, so that a moisture content may be 1.2 to 1.5 times an optimum soil compacting moisture content, and then stirred and followed by subjecting to a rolled fill which is followed by watering or spreading an aqueous solution of a soil-agglomerating agent on the mixture, which was subjected to the rolled fill, at least one time within 1 to 5 days after the completion of the rolled fill and further watering at least one time within 7 to 21 days after the completion of the rolled fill respectively, whereby an ideal sportssurface and the like showing not only a water-permeability but also a preferable compression strength and bending strength and showing no frost heaving is obtained.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an artificial soil, which has compound effects, and is used in a wide range, and is easy to handle, is obtained by mixing Shirasu, fine particles of fossils, pulverized organic materials and soil-aggregating agent powders, and a construction of a bed soil for a putting green having excellent drainage and water-holding property and fertilizer-holding property is obtained by forming the bed soil of an upper growth layer formed of the artificial soil formed of a mixture comprising Shirasu, fine particles of fossils, pulverized organic materials and soil-aggregating agent powders, sands and soils and a lower drainage-layer formed of sands or mainly comprising sands.