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Road cut slopes will not be steeper than 1 v: 1.5h in unconsolidated material or 1 v:0.25h in rock. <br />Embankment fill slopes will not be steeper than 1v:1.5h, except where embankment material is a <br />minimum 85 percent rock. Embankment slopes will not be steeper than 1v:1.35h unless it has <br />been demonstrated to the regulatory authority that embankment stability will result. The <br />minimum safety factor for all embankments will be 1.25. <br />All vegetation material and topsoil, as determined under 4.06.2, will be removed from beneath <br />the design roadbed, shoulders, and surfaces where associated structures will be placed, and will <br />be stored in accordance with 4.06.3. <br />Embankments will not be constructed on side slopes steeper than lv:5h or 20 percent unless the <br />existing ground is plowed, stepped or if in bedrock, keyed in a manner which increases the <br />stability of the fill. <br />Material used for embankments will be reasonably free of organic material, coal or coal blossom, <br />frozen materials, wet or peat material, natural soils containing organic matter or any other <br />material considered unsuitable for use in embankment construction by DRMS. Excess or <br />unsuitable material from excavations will be disposed in accordance with 4.09.1. <br />Material for construction of embankments will come from the vicinity of the mining area and <br />will be non-toxic and of a non-acid producing nature. <br />Material containing, by volume, less than 25 percent of rock larger than 6 inches in greatest <br />dimension will be spread by scrapers or dozers in successive uniform layers not exceeding 12 <br />inches in thickness before compaction. <br />When the material for an embankment consists of large size rock, broken stone, or fragmented <br />material that makes placing it in 12 inch layers impossible, the embankment will be constructed <br />in uniform layers not exceeding in thickness the approximate average size of the rock used, but <br />the layers will not exceed 36 inches. Rock will be distributed by grading or dozing in a manner <br />that will ensure proper placement in the embankment, so that voids, pockets and bridging will be <br />reduced to a minimum. The final layer will meet the requirements of 4.03.1(3)(d)(v). <br />Each layer of the embankment will be completed, leveled and compacted before the succeeding <br />layer is placed. Successive layers will be compacted evenly by routing dozers, trucks and <br />scrapers over the entire width of the embankment. This procedure will be continued until no <br />visible horizontal movement of the embankment material is apparent. Embankment layers will <br />be compacted to a minimum of 90 percent of Standard Proctor density or as directed by the <br />Section 2.05.3(3) Page 19 April 2017 (MR -104) <br />