CONTROL OF WATER

1.1

GENERAL
A.

The contractor shall be responsible for the control of water met within the
excavations due to ground water, spring, seepage, rain or other causes. He shall
take all measures and necessary precautions to control water seepage into
excavations by suitable diversions and by bailing out or by pumping if necessary
to keep the excavations dry during excavation, concrete construction, and
embankment or backfill placement and compaction.

B.

The contractor shall submit to the Project Manager for approval, details of such
measures as he proposes to adopt for the control of water from any source.
Notwithstanding any approval by the Project Manager of the Contractor's
arrangement for the exclusion of water, the Contractor shall be responsible for
sufficiency thereof and for keeping the works safe at all times, particularly during
any floods, and for making good at his own expense any damage to the works
including any that may be attributable to floods.
Pumping from the interior of any foundations enclosure shall be done in such a
manner as to preclude the possibility of the movement of water through any fresh
concrete. No pumping shall be permitted during the placing of concrete or for any
period of at least twenty four hours thereafter unless it is done from a suitable
pump separated from the concrete work by a water tight wall or other similar
measns.
At the discretion of the contractor, cement grouting or other approved method
may be used to prevent or reduced seepage and to protect the excavation area.