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Soil is to be excavated from a borrow pit to construct a 100-m-long trapezoidal levee that...

Soil is to be excavated from a borrow pit to construct a 100-m-long trapezoidal levee that is 3 meters high, 5 meters wide at the top, and 15 meters wide at the base. The in situ total unit weight of the soil in the borrow pit is 21.7 kN/m3 with a water content of 11.4%. If levee construction requires the soil to be placed at a void ratio of 0.47, determine the volume that should be excavated from the borrow pit.

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The volume of soil excavated from borrow pit is 2274.26 m3

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