FootingDepth
FootingDepth is a state-by-state reference on how deep footings, fence posts and buried lines have to go. Every depth names the code section and edition it came from, and where no agency publishes a verifiable figure the page says so rather than guessing.
Why it earned its spot
The Alabama page answers in one figure — a blue 12” on a band of soil brown — then spends its remaining length earning it. A to-scale cross-section seats the footing under a blue frost line against depth rules at 12, 24, 36 and 48 inches, so the number is drawn rather than asserted, and a blaze-orange call-811 panel interrupts before the concrete calculator gets its hatched grey panel. Below the fold the palette drops to cream and the layout to a single measured column of plain prose and an accordion of direct questions. Condensed uppercase headings and a narrow measure keep a long, code-heavy page scannable for someone checking a number before a pour.
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