borrow pit

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borrow pit

(Civil Engineering) civil engineering an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere

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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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It reveals a vision for The Borrow Pit to become a hub for water sports, such as kayaking and swimming.

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If that still doesn't bring in enough dirt, the county board signed off on a new deal that will allow the contractor building the course to draw from a borrow pit of up to 30,000 cubic yards of clean soil.

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That clarification stated that a site is a "borrow pit" if the landowner has a loader and uses bank run material to fill potholes in a road, low places in the yard, etc., and no milling or processing is involved, except for the use of a portable or stationary scalping screen to remove large rocks, wood or trash.

Two-person excavating company not under MSHA jurisdiction

Since some of the litter appeared to be currency, he stopped to gather some, and soon retrieved thousands of dollars from the traffic lane and a nearby borrow pit. He also came across a pair of men's shoes and picked them up as well.