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borrow pit

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borrow pit
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(Engineering / Civil Engineering) Civil engineering an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
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Noun1.borrow pit - a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site
cavity, pit - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"
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Now 146 acres, the park was once a borrow pit that provided gravel used in the construction of Belt Line Road and its overpasses to the east.
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During these rainy weeks, the 62d's equipment platoon began operating the borrow pit and hauled fill whenever the weather allowed.
Constructing Landing Strip Hammer: planning and executing an ... by Sahl, Joseph / Engineer: The Professional Bulletin for Army Engineers
A Soils investigation was performed on the Burma Road Borrow Pit II area.
Burma Road Borrow Pit 2 soil investigation by Brown, Erin / Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science
 
 
 
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