Common use of Measurement of and Payment for Earthworks Clause in Contracts

Measurement of and Payment for Earthworks. The tendered prices for earthworks shall include for all associated work such as setting out in plan and in level, side sloping, timbering, shoring strutting, storm water protection, dewatering, draining, trimming to line and level or grade, removing tree roots and obstructions as specified disposal of soil and surplus material, testing to confirm compliance with the specification and all other contingent works not billed specifically. All excavations shall be measured net to the lines and levels specified on the drawings or otherwise by the Engineer. Where not specified by the Engineer to the contrary sides of excavations shall be taken as vertical. The depth of excavation shall be taken as the depth from the actual cleared ground level to the formation level specified by the Engineer or, in the case of trench excavation for sewer, water, drainage or other pipes or culverts to the invert level specified by the Engineer. The Contractor shall be deemed to have allowed in his rates for any additional excavation: Necessary to accommodate the thickness of pipes or culverts and the specified bedding Necessary to accommodate the joints of pipes or culverts Due to inadvertent over break Due to over break in rock specified elsewhere for trench excavations for pipelines.