Backfill definition

Backfill means any foreign material, usually pea gravel or sand, which usually differs from the native soil and is used to support or cover the underground storage tank system.
Backfill means the placement of fill material within a specified depression, hole or excavation pit below the surrounding adjacent ground level as a means of improving flood water conveyance or to restore the land to the natural contours existing prior to excavation.
Backfill means a soil which is clean and free of foreign debris, placed over the disposal area and fill extensions.

Examples of Backfill in a sentence

  • Backfill Add the following new Sub-Clause: Where scheduled, or directed by the Engineer, backfill shall be stabilised with 8% cement by mass.

  • The employee will then be asked to come in and review all their other bids in the Backfill Book and remove their name from any shift they no longer want.

  • After the shift bid on the ramp, both full-time and part-time ramp employees may sign up in the Backfill Book under the shifts that they wanted but were unable to hold.

  • Backfill around the structure shall be placed in uniform layers to the level of the water table.


More Definitions of Backfill

Backfill means only the material placed in the excavation zone to support the petroleum storage tank system;
Backfill or "backfilling" means to fill an excavation or pit with material to a predetermined configuration by reducing the peaks, valleys, and outslopes of the spoil, and filling the cut.
Backfill means the soil that is placed in a trench or bed that surrounds or is on top of the dispersal media within the excavation up to the naturally occurring soil surface.
Backfill means replacement of suitable material compacted as specified around and over a pipe, conduit, casing, or gallery.
Backfill means suitable material that is used to replace excavated material around a structure or that is used in a pipe trench to replace excavated material above the granular surround of the pipe to the underside of the roadway/footway construction or the underside of the top-soil reinstatement in a green area as set out in this Code of Practice;
Backfill means only the material placed in the excavation