Definitions
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- noun a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site
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A procession of dump trucks will carry the material along a road from the dam up a nearby ridge to a “borrow pit” — a crater in the hill where material for the dam was removed in the early 1960s.
The Klamath River’s Iron Gate comes down, one scoop at a time Juliet Grable 2024
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