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    This document provides the minimum cover requirements in millimeters and inches for different types of wiring methods and circuits with voltages up to 600 volts nominal. It specifies the minimum burial depths for direct burial cables, rigid metal conduit, intermediate metal conduit, nonmetallic raceways, and more. The requirements vary depending on the location of installation such as trenches, under buildings, driveways, airports, and more. Notes provide additional details on how cover is defined and exceptions for solid rock preventing compliance with cover depths.

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    This document provides the minimum cover requirements in millimeters and inches for different types of wiring methods and circuits with voltages up to 600 volts nominal. It specifies the minimum burial depths for direct burial cables, rigid metal conduit, intermediate metal conduit, nonmetallic raceways, and more. The requirements vary depending on the location of installation such as trenches, under buildings, driveways, airports, and more. Notes provide additional details on how cover is defined and exceptions for solid rock preventing compliance with cover depths.

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    Table 300.5 Minimum Cover Requirements, 0 To 600 Volts PDF

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    This document provides the minimum cover requirements in millimeters and inches for different types of wiring methods and circuits with voltages up to 600 volts nominal. It specifies the minimum burial depths for direct burial cables, rigid metal conduit, intermediate metal conduit, nonmetallic raceways, and more. The requirements vary depending on the location of installation such as trenches, under buildings, driveways, airports, and more. Notes provide additional details on how cover is defined and exceptions for solid rock preventing compliance with cover depths.

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    70–126 ARTICLE 300 — WIRING METHODS

    Table 300.5 Minimum Cover Requirements, 0 to 600 Volts, Nominal, Burial in Millimeters (Inches)

    Type of Wiring Method or Circuit

    Column 5
    Circuits for
    Control of
    Column 4 Irrigation and
    Column 3 Residential Branch Landscape
    Nonmetallic Circuits Rated 120 Lighting Limited
    Raceways Listed Volts or Less with to Not More Than
    Column 2 for Direct Burial GFCI Protection 30 Volts and
    Column 1 Rigid Metal Without Concrete and Maximum Installed with Type
    Direct Burial Conduit or Encasement or Overcurrent UF or in Other
    Cables or Intermediate Metal Other Approved Protection of 20 Identified Cable or
    Conductors Conduit Raceways Amperes Raceway
    Location of Wiring
    Method or Circuit mm in. mm in. mm in. mm in. mm in.

    All locations not 600 24 150 6 450 18 300 12 150 6


    specified below

    In trench below 50-mm 450 18 150 6 300 12 50 6 50 6


    (2-in.) thick concrete
    or equivalent

    Under a building 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    (in raceway only) (in raceway only) (in raceway only)

    Under minimum of 450 18 100 4 100 4 150 6 150 6


    102-mm (4-in.) thick (direct burial)
    concrete exterior slab 100 4
    with no vehicular (in raceway)
    traffic and the slab
    extending not less than
    152 mm (6 in.) beyond
    the underground
    installation

    Under streets, highways, 600 24 600 24 600 24 600 24 600 24


    roads, alleys,
    driveways, and parking
    lots

    One- and two-family 450 18 450 18 450 18 300 12 450 18


    dwelling driveways
    and outdoor parking
    areas, and used only
    for dwelling-related
    purposes

    In or under airport 450 18 450 18 450 18 450 18 450 18


    runways, including
    adjacent areas where
    trespassing prohibited

    Notes:
    1. Cover is defined as the shortest distance in millimeters (inches) 4. Where one of the wiring method types listed in Columns 1–3 is
    measured between a point on the top surface of any direct-buried used for one of the circuit types in Columns 4 and 5, the shallower
    conductor, cable, conduit, or other raceway and the top surface of depth of burial shall be permitted.
    finished grade, concrete, or similar cover. 5. Where solid rock prevents compliance with the cover depths speci-
    2. Raceways approved for burial only where concrete encased shall fied in this table, the wiring shall be installed in metal or nonmetallic
    require concrete envelope not less than 50 mm (2 in.) thick. raceway permitted for direct burial. The raceways shall be covered by
    3. Lesser depths shall be permitted where cables and conductors rise a minimum of 50 mm (2 in.) of concrete extending down to rock.
    for terminations or splices or where access is otherwise required.

    2002 Edition NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE

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