Backfill definition

Backfill means any foreign material, usually pea gravel or sand, which usually differs from the native soil and is used to support or cover the underground storage tank system.

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Backfill means a soil which is clean and free of foreign debris, placed over the disposal area and fill extensions.

Backfill means the placement of fill material within a specified depression, hole or excavation pit below the surrounding adjacent ground level as a means of improving flood water conveyance or to restore the land to the natural contours existing prior to excavation.

Examples of Backfill in a sentence

F., Staffing, Backfill (Planned Replacement), Budgeting and Capacity Building, provides the details regarding these obligations.
Backfill Costs also called “Overtime as Backfill” are defined as expenses from the result of personnel who are working overtime in order to perform the duties of other personnel who are temporarily assigned to FEMA – approved activities outside their core responsibilities.
Backfill material shall consist of dirt and/or mulch from root pruning and shall be free from rocks.
At this location the DB Contractor is required to reconstruct and replace the bridge approach slabs at both abutment locations, including removing all existing backfill and replacing with new Cement Stabilized Backfill.
Section 1.F., Staffing, Backfill (Planned Replacement), Budgeting and Capacity Building, provides the details regarding these obligations.

More Definitions of Backfill

Backfill means only the material placed in the excavation zone to support the petroleum storage tank system;

Backfill or "backfilling" means to fill an excavation or pit with material to a predetermined configuration by reducing the peaks, valleys, and outslopes of the spoil, and filling the cut.

Backfill means the soil that is placed in a trench or bed that surrounds or is on top of the dispersal media within the excavation up to the naturally occurring soil surface.

Backfill means placement of suitable material and compaction of the material as specified in these rules.

Backfill means replacement of suitable material compacted as specified around and over a pipe, conduit, casing, or gallery.

Backfill means suitable material that is used to replace excavated material around a structure or that is used in a pipe trench to replace excavated material above the granular surround of the pipe to the underside of the roadway/footway construction or the underside of the top-soil reinstatement in a green area as set out in this Code of Practice;

Backfill means to replace the structural layers, including the base, sub-base, sudgrade and subgrade but excluding the surfacing, in a trench dug in, or other excavation of, a road reserve, and “backfilling” is construed accordingly;