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borrow pit in sw Florida 2
- Thread starter shablona
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My first hint on what to look for would be a Geotechnical Engineer. I am not experienced in siting a borrow pit, but I would imagine it would be more desirable to have a Geotech perform borings and do lab tests to find soils with the desired specs rather than a 40 ton excavator and eyeballing it.
mitchell54
Civil/Environmental
- Mar 11, 2005
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Depending on the terrain I would look at the use of a GEOPROBE , a track or truck mounted unit. Since it is a very small machine and uses direct push technologies, you could move four times as fast. Any geotech should have the capability for you.
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