Ground disturbance definition

Ground disturbance means any activity that compacts or disturbs the ground including disturbance upon State lands or Abandoned shipwrecks related to the construction, alteration, trenching or expansion of dikes, borrow pits, utility lines, airports, bridges, housing developments, boat basins and channels, and the placement of fill or spoil dirt.

Ground disturbance means any work, operation or activity that results in a disturbance of the earth, including excavating, digging, trenching, cultivating, drilling, tunnelling, augering, backfilling, blasting, topsoil stripping, land levelling, peat removing, quarrying, clearing and grading;

Ground disturbance means any activity that disturbs or compacts the ground.

Examples of Ground disturbance in a sentence

• Ground disturbance can reveal significant fossils that would otherwise remain buried and unavailable for scientific study.

• Ground disturbance from machinery use shall not exceed 15% on each acre and berms, ruts and other operator caused ground disturbance will be smoothed out to original contours before leaving the immediate work area.

• Ground disturbance can uncover and damage archaeological and historical remains.

• Ground disturbance is defined by the Tribal Representatives from the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians, Kizh Nation as activities that include, but are not limited to, pavement removal, pot-holing or auguring, boring, grading, excavation, and trenching, within the project area.

• Ground disturbance (grading) would be required for the installation of the top and bottom terminals.

More Definitions of Ground disturbance

Ground disturbance means any excavation of 50 cubic yards or more.

Ground disturbance means any work, operation or activity that results in a disturbance of the earth including, without limitation, excavating, digging, trenching, plowing, drilling, tunneling, auguring, backfilling, blasting, topsoil stripping, land leveling, peak removing, quarrying, clearing and grading, but does not include:

Ground disturbance means development activity resulting in the manipulation of the terrain or of earth materials such as rock or soil including excavating, grading, placement of structures, trenching for utilities or foundations, but excluding the cultivation of the soil for agricultural purposes.

Ground disturbance means any w ork, operation or activity on or under the existing surface resulting in a

Ground disturbance means a ground disturbance is defined as any work, operation or activity that results in a disturbance of the earth to a depth of 30cm or more.

Ground disturbance means any work, operation or activity on or under the existing surface resulting in a disturbance or displacement of the soil or ground cover. Ground disturbances can include, but are not limited to, digging, excavation, trenching, ditching, tunneling, boring/drilling/pushing, augering, topsoil stripping, land levelling/grading, plowing, tree planting, land clearing and stump removal, subsoiling, blasting/use of explosives, quarrying, grinding and milling of asphalt/concrete, seismic exploration, driving fence posts, bars, rods, pins, anchors, or pilings, and crossing of buried pipelines or other underground infrastructure by heavy loads off the travelled portion of a public roadway.

Ground disturbance means a ground disturbance is defined as any work, operation, or activity that results in a disturbance of the earth to a depth of 30cm or more, or that results in a reduction of the initial installation cover over a pipeline. The term 'ground disturbance' has been adopted by industry to replace 'excavation' since there are many activities other than excavation that disturb the ground. Some types of buried facilities, other than pipelines, may not have 30cm of cover; hence it would be prudent to consider any disturbance of the ground, regardless of depth, as a ground disturbance.