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Item -120 Excavation and Embankment <br />A. Earthwork, including earthwork for drives outside the right-of-way limits, shall be <br />paid for as embankment. Cost shall include all work specified in this section and <br />Section 120 of the Standard Specifications. Such price and payment shall <br />specifically include all cost of any roadway, lateral ditch or canal, and final dressing <br />operations. <br />B. Earthwork quantities shall be considered as in-place material with no shrinkage <br />or expansion factors. <br />C. Subsoil Excavation - Any excavation below the proposed bottom elevation of the <br />select fill, isolated swale bottom locations, isolated locations for pipe installations <br />and as approved by the engineer shall be paid for as subsoil excavation. <br />Approximately 2.0 ft of subsoil excavation is required in sublateral canals. Cost of <br />replacement embankment shall be included in cost of subsoil excavation. <br />Contractor to coordinate with county representative prior to any subsoil excavation. <br />D. Embankment - General Requirements for Embankment Materials: The following <br />is added after the first paragraph of Subarticle 120-7.2: <br />Roadway Design Standard Index No. 505, Embankment Utilization Details is <br />modified by the addition of the following: <br />Any stratum or stockpile or soil which contains obvious pockets of highly organic <br />material may be designated as muck or unsuitable for construction of subgrade by <br />the Owner. <br />Backfill material containing more than 2.0% by weight of organic material, as <br />determined by FM 1-T 267 and by averaging the test results for three randomly <br />selected samples from each stratum or stockpile of a particular material, shall not <br />be used in construction of the reinforced volume. If an individual test value of the <br />three samples exceeds 3.0%, the stratum or stockpile will not be suitable for <br />construction of the reinforced volume. <br />No A-8 material permitted in embankment. <br />E. Payment shall be made under: <br />Item No. 120-1 — Excavation Regular — Per Cubic Yard <br />Item No. 120-4 - Subsoil Excavation - Per Cubic Yard <br />Item No. 120-6-1 - Embankment - Per Cubic Yard <br />01025-18 Technical Specifications <br />FAEngineering\Capital Projects\0206 5th ST SW & 43rd AVE Bridge Replacement & Roadway Improvements\CONTRACT <br />BID\Technical Specifications.doc <br />