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Rock Dredging

Rock Dredging

Rock Dredging

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Any ideas on how to specify difficult excavation materials (weathered rock and rock) in a lake bottom?  Also, how to quantify for payment?

RE: Rock Dredging

Price it as blasting and as excavation, (cubic yards) with the provision of being under water.  This will kill all the fish in the vicinity!

RE: Rock Dredging

i think for bidding purposes, one of the best is to provide an allowance or contingent item for rock excavation.  make sure your spec clearly defines the difference between rock and ordinary excavation so the contractor can't take advantage.  I wouldn't try and differentiate between weathered and non-weathered rock.  then estimate a quantity to the best of your ability and ask for a unit price bid on that quantity.

try the following section from the corps of engineers guide specs:

"Rock excavation shall include blasting, excavating, grading, and disposing of material classified as rock and shall include the satisfactory removal and disposal of boulders 1/2 cubic yard or more in volume; solid rock; rock material that is in ledges, bedded deposits, and unstratified masses, which cannot be removed without systematic drilling and blasting; and firmly cemented conglomerate deposits possessing the characteristics of solid rock impossible to remove without systematic drilling and blasting.  The removal of any concrete or masonry structures, except pavements, exceeding 1/2 cubic yard in volume that may be encountered in the work shall be included in this classification.  If at any time during excavation, including excavation from borrow areas, the Contractor encounters material that may be classified as rock excavation, such material shall be uncovered and the Contracting Officer notified by the Contractor.  The Contractor shall not proceed with the excavation of this material until the Contracting Officer has classified the materials as common excavation or rock excavation and has taken cross sections as required.  Failure on the part of the Contractor to uncover such material, notify the Contracting Officer, and allow ample time for classification and cross sectioning of the undisturbed surface of such material will cause the forfeiture of the Contractor's right of claim to any classification or volume of material to be paid for other than that allowed by the Contracting Officer for the areas of work in which such deposits occur."

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