What to Do With Dirt From Your Project

Clay, native soil, sometimes rock depending on the dig

A typical 15x30 pool at 5–6 ft deep runs roughly 90–110 cubic yards — run your exact dimensions through the calculator below.

Clay, structural fill spoils, sometimes select fill cut from the pad

Volume scales with slab size and cut depth — a standard residential pad often runs 20–60 cubic yards; commercial pad sites run much higher.

Clay and native soil, often a large single volume

A full basement under an average home can run 150–300+ cubic yards depending on depth and footprint.

Topsoil and base-grade clay, sometimes gravel base material

Most driveway regrading jobs run under 20 cubic yards — small enough that a single load often covers it.

Native soil disturbed by demo — NOT the demolition debris itself

Highly variable by structure size — get a real number from the excavator before calling around.

Mass-excavated clay and native soil, often thousands of cubic yards

Subdivision-scale grading commonly runs into the thousands of cubic yards — see the large-volume guide, not the standard calculator.

Clay and native soil, sometimes wet/high-moisture material

Highly variable by pond size and depth — a small backyard pond can run 20–50 cubic yards; retention basins run much higher.

Native soil, often mixed with base/bedding material from the trench

A 100 ft trench at 3 ft wide and 4 ft deep runs about 44 cubic yards — multiply by your actual run length.

Topsoil and subsoil disturbed by tree removal, brush clearing, and rough grading — clean once cleared vegetation and root debris are separated out.

A 0.5-acre residential lot cleared and rough-graded to a 6-inch average cut runs roughly 400 cubic yards; a 2-acre commercial clearing job at the same depth runs roughly 1,600.

Clean native soil, occasionally with old bedding gravel or sand mixed in if it's a re-do of an existing crossing

A typical 20 ft driveway crossing with an 18-inch culvert pipe commonly leaves 3-6 cubic yards of genuine excess spoil once bedding and backfill go back in — small, but still eligible for a free match.

Native soil and clay excavated from the tank pit and drain field trenches

A standard tank excavation alone typically leaves 10–20 cubic yards of native soil unreplaced; add a 3–5 trench drain field and total net-excess commonly runs 15–40+ cubic yards depending on system size and percolation results.

Displaced mud and sediment carried by storm runoff — clean when it's just native soil, but often mixed with leaves, branches, trash, or gravel that has to be sorted out before it's match-ready.

A modest sediment deposit against a fence line (15 ft x 3 ft x 1 ft) runs about 1.7 cubic yards, while a driveway culvert or low-corner deposit across a 10x10 ft area at 1.5 ft deep is closer to 5.6 cubic yards.