Embankment definition

Embankment means an artificial deposit of material that is raised above the natural surface of the land and used to contain, divert, or store water, support roads or railways, or for other similar purposes.

Embankment means a fill. Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material is placed, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported or moved to a new location above the natural surface of the ground or on top of the stripped surface or cut and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom. The difference in elevation between a point on the original ground and a designated point of higher elevation on the final grade. The material used to make a fill.

Embankment means and includes every bank, dam, wall and dyke made or used for excluding water from or for retaining water upon any land; every sluice, spur, groyne, training wall or other work annexed to, or portion of any such embankment; every bank, dam, dyke, wall groyne or spur made or erected for the protection of any such embankment or of any land from erosion or over flow by or of river, tides, waves or waters; and also all buildings and roads, intended for purpose of inspection and supervision and Public Embankment maintained by the State Government

Examples of Embankment in a sentence

• Embankment (fill) or Regular Excavation (cut) should be used in conjunction with the pay item Subsoil Excavation.

• ObjectiveThe objective of this operation is to provide technical consulting services for execution of TC to carry out the feasibility studies for the first ("Bañado Norte") phase of the Program for Developing and Constructing Coastal Embankment Protection for the Asunción Shorefront (PR-0043).

• Material 204.03 Conform to the following Subsections: Backfill material 704.03Select borrow 704.07Select topping 704.08Topping 704.05Unclassified borrow 704.06Water 725.01 Construction Requirements 204.04 Preparation for Roadway Excavation and Embankment Construction.

• In order to end the flooding problem once and for all, the IMA devised the Program for Developing and Constructing Coastal Embankment Protection for the Asunción Shorefront.

• Embankment shall not contain muck, frozen material, roots, sod, or other deleterious material.

More Definitions of Embankment

Embankment means a dam’s principal barrier made of earth or rock fill or a combination of earth and rock

Embankment means the fill material, usually earth or rock, placed with sloping sides providing a barrier which impounds water.

Embankment means a deposit of soil, rock or other material placed by man, whose surface makes an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Embankment means the portion of a dam constructed of earth or earth and stone masonry connecting topographic features and often shaped to have sloping sides, a level crest, typically vegetated with a grass cover, and provides a manmade barrier which impounds water.

Embankment means the raised compacted-earth structures that retain water and support operating roads at the crest.

Embankment means a constructed deposit of earth or waste materials, usually exhibiting at least one sloping face.

Embankment means a deposit of soil, rock, gravel, sand or other materials, including dredged materials, deposited by man to hold back water or soil.