Excavate definition

Excavate or "excavation" means ditching, dredging, or mechanized removal of earth, soil or rock.
Excavate means to dig into or in any way remove or physically disturb or penetrate any part of a right-of-way.
Excavate or "excavation" means any operation in which earth, rock, or other material in the ground

Examples of Excavate in a sentence

  • Unclassified Excavation: Excavate to subgrade elevations regardless of the character of surface and subsurface conditions encountered.

  • Excavate trenches to indicated gradients, lines, depths, and elevations.

  • Excavate by hand to final grade just before placing concrete reinforcement.

  • Excavate surfaces under walks and pavements to indicated lines, cross sections, elevations, and subgrades.

  • Trench Bottoms: Excavate and shape trench bottoms to provide uniform bearing and support of pipes and conduit.


More Definitions of Excavate

Excavate means to dig, compress or remove earth, rock or other materials in or on the ground by use of mechanized equipment or blasting, including, but not necessarily limited to, augering, boring, backfilling, drilling, grading, pile driving, plowing in, pulling in, trenching, tunneling and plowing; provided, however, that neither:
Excavate or ‘excavation’ means an operation for the purpose of the movement or removal of earth, rock, or other materials in or on the ground by use of mechanized equipment or by discharge of explosives and including augering, backfilling, digging, ditching, drilling, well drilling, grading, plowing-in, pulling-in, ripping, scraping, trenching, and tunneling.
Excavate means and includes any cutting, digging, excavating, tunneling, boring, grading or other alteration of the surface or subsurface material or earth in the right-of-way.
Excavate means to dig into, cut, quarry, uncover, remove, displace, relocate, or grade any earth, soil, sand, gravel, rock, peat, organic, inorganic or any other similar material.
Excavate or "excavation" means an operation in which earth, rock, or other material on or below the ground is moved or displaced by tools, equipment, or explosives.
Excavate or "excavation" means ditching, dredging, or mechanized removal of earth, soil or rock. 757 "Industrial wastes" means liquid or other wastes resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, 758 trade, or business or from the development of any natural resources.