Fill Dirt |
Fill
dirt is earthy material which is used to fill in a depression or
hole in the ground or create mounds or otherwise artificially change
the grade or elevation of real property.
Fill dirt is usually subsoil (soil from beneath the top soil) and
underlying soil parent material which has little soil organic matter
or biological activity. Fill dirt is taken from a location where
soil is being removed as a part of leveling an area for
construction; it may also contain sand, rocks, and stones, as well
as earth.
Fill dirt should be as free of organic matter as possible since
organic matter will decompose creating pockets of empty space within
the fill which could result in settling. Uneven or excessive
settling of the fill can result in damage to any structures built on
the fill.
A common use of fill dirt is in highway maintenance to build up the
shoulders of highways so that the ground on either side of the
pavement is at the same level as the pavement itself and that the
highway shoulders are sufficiently wide as to allow vehicles room to
pull off of the highway if needed.
A second common use of fill dirt is to fill in a low lying
construction site to raise the level of the building foundation in
order to reduce the chances of flooding. Several massive uses of
fill dirt are with improvements to the Port of Seattle Sea-Tac
Airport, the addition of a new runway to the Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Shin
Kansai Kuko or New Osaka Airport off the coast of Japan, a project
involving the creation of a new man-made island of some five square
kilometers.
Fill dirt is also used for landscaping projects which involve the
creation of ridges and earth structures for pools, waterfalls, and
other water features as well as to break up a level area in order to
provide more interesting textures to the landscape.
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