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Capacity of a private grave

A private grave will normally hold four adult interments (burials) but no guarantee in this connection can be given.  The reason for this is that conditions vary from time to time and from place to place in a cemetery, and there are other variable factors that can affect the capacity of a grave.  The capacity is not affected by the burial of small caskets containing cremated remains (ashes).
 
Please note that when a grave is opened for an interment (burial) to take place, the soil from this grave will have to be placed on the adjacent graves.  The inconvenience to people visiting these graves is unavoidable, but temporary.  Staff will place boards on the nearby graves to protect them and to protect monuments and gardened graves.  However, the contractor cannot be held responsible for unavoidable damage to the gardened graves.