Unloading from area and loading in another area

[soil1999]

We want to move huge amount of soil ( around 2000 cubic m)from over a specific area in a private land and dump those on a different area within the same region. I really appreciate your geotechnical key points/inputs that should be considered in this operation.

 

[BigH]

Not much to go on - what do you want to do with it? What ramifications would filling "another area" cause? Soil conditions? Not only from geotechnical point of view - but what about environmental? Any contaminants in the soil you are moving? Etc. 2000 m3 is "not" a huge amount of material. I was once involved with a million m3 in a 800 m stretch of new highway . . . . that was fairly large.

 

[Zambo]

BigH I agree that 2,000m3 is not a huge amount - perhaps 200 trucks. I don't think there are many considerations, just get a machine to push the material up an a backhoe to load onto the trucks. Then at the tipping area another machine is needed to move the tipped heaps into the final stockpile.

 

[PEinc]

Will the repositioned soil need to be compacted in lifts for some near future use? A pile of uncompacted soil can cost someone a lot of money in the future.

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