Test Hole definition

Test Hole means any temporarily cased or uncased hole drilled, bored, cored, washed, or jetted, for the intended use of obtaining data for engineering, geophysical or geological exploration, and/or prospecting for minerals or products of mining or quarrying, and not for the purposes of either producing, disposing of, or searching for water.

Test Hole means any excavation in the area of the proposed leachfield to collect information on the soil profile, depth to a restrictive layer or bedrock, depth to seasonal high groundwater table or any other applicable field information.

Test Hole means a hole dug in the proposed disposal field area a minimum of seven feet deep or four feet below the bottom of disposal field, whichever is greater, and a minimum of two feet wide; the “test hole” shall be sufficient to examine the soil visually for type, structure, mottling, impervious layers and other soil characteristics, and to determine the seasonal high water table level; a soil boring may be used to determine the soil characteristics and soil depth;

Examples of Test Hole in a sentence

• Subsurface Utility Locate (Test Hole) Services (Quality Level A) are inclusive of Quality Levels B, C, and D.

• Quality Level A - Locate (Test Hole): Three-dimensional mapping and other characterization data.

• Subsurface Utility Locate (Test Hole) Service (Quality Level A), Locate means to obtain precise horizontal and vertical position, material type, condition, size and other data that may be obtainable about the utility facility and its surrounding environment through exposure by non-destructive excavation techniques that ensures the integrity of the utility facility.

• Markowski, Geohydrologic and Water-Quality Characterization of a Fractured-Bedrock Test Hole in an Area of Marcellus Shale Gas Development, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 2013.

• Permanent Well and Test Hole Abandonment - All wells and test holes that are not completed as a production, monitoring or observation well shall be properly abandoned.

More Definitions of Test Hole

Test Hole means a hole designed solely for the purpose of obtaining information on hydrologic or geologic conditions.

Test Hole means any excavation, regardless of design or method of construction, for the purpose of determining the most suitable site for removing ground water from an aquifer.

Test Hole means an excavation into a water producinggeological formation that is intended to determine the formation’s characteristics for the purposes of producing groundwater to be put to some lawful purpose.

Test Hole means a hole of more than 150 m in depth that is drilled through sedimentary rock to obtain information respecting structure, stratigraphy or lithology; (« trou d'essai »)

Test Hole means a well that,

Test Hole means a hole designed to obtain information on hydrogeologic conditions or characteristics of the water bearing layers in the aquifer prior to construction of a groundwater well.

Test Hole means a test hole as defined in Regulation 903 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario 1990 (Wells) made under the Ontario Water Resources Act;