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 the penetration of the ground to any depth.
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:
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 can uncover and damage archaeological and historical remains.
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 shall be avoided until immediately preceding construction to minimize exposure of soils.
Ground disturbance shall be minimized to the greatest extent feasible.
More Definitions of Ground disturbance
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 excavation of 50 cubic yards or more.
Ground disturbance means work, operation or activity that results in the disturbance of the earth as a result of excavating, digging, trenching, ploughing, drilling, tunneling, backfilling, blasting, topsoil stripping, land leveling, pit removing, quarrying, clearing or grading;
Ground disturbance means any activity that disturbs or compacts the ground.
Ground disturbance means a ground activity that includes any Work, operation or activity that results in a disturbance of the earth, including a mining activity as defined in section 1 of the Mines Act (British Columbia), but not including:
Ground disturbance means development activity resulting in the manipulation of the terrain or of earth materials such as rock or soil including excavation, grading, placement of structures, trenching for utilities or foundations, but excluding the cultivation of the soil for agricultural purposes.
Ground disturbance or "soil disturbance" means a natural or man-made alteration of the soil that alters or destroys the integrity of any archeological sites contained in that soil.