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// CODE SNIPPET

1403.1.4 Excavation and Construction

Plumbing Code of the Texas Industrialized Housing and Buildings Program > 14 Subsurface Landscape Irrigation Systems > 1403 Installation > 1403.1 Installation > 1403.1.4 Excavation and Construction
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The bottom of a trench or bed excavation shall be level. Seepage trenches or beds shall not be excavated where the soil is so wet that such material rolled between the hands forms a soil wire. All smeared or compacted soil surfaces in the sidewalls or bottom of seepage trench or bed excavations shall be scarified to the depth of smearing or compaction and the loose material removed. Where rain falls on an open excavation, the soil shall be left until sufficiently dry so a soil wire will not form when soil from the excavation bottom is rolled between the hands. The bottom area shall then be scarified and loose material removed.

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