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Each cubic yard contains 27 cubic feet, which in this case equates to 333 cubic yards of dirt being piled high near the construction site.
For those who cannot imagine this magnitude, the dirt pile will be three-fourths the size of the home being built.
The driveway (assuming only one inch is scraped off the surface) will have almost a cubic yard of excess material, which must be spread elsewhere or disposed of offsite.
If two inches are removed then there will be two cubic yards of excess material. And so on.
The home construction site will have about 4,000 square feet of disturbed land. When a septic field is added, which requires about 10 drain lines each of which is 100 feet long, a 10,000 additional square feet of excavation is accumulated.
The total disturbed land for this simple home-construction project will be 14,000 square feet. This rela
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