looking for a word, really - trying to translate the german word "Eingriff"
which is "intervention" or even "operation" in english, but doesn't really fit
the contexts:
        talking about some sort of a linear construction work/project/
disturbance - maybe some sort of a collective noun to cover pipelines, highways,
 
railroads... or even any sort of a construction at all, really, just that in
this case we're talking about something which is clearly linear; "linear
intervention" would be the literal translation, but... obviously doesn't just
mean construction type stuff, but also military (linear?) intervention, etc. -
someone suggested "trenching", but then again it's not necessarily digging -
        if you're doing a mitigation study or impact assesment or whatever, on
something which is clearly linear, what do you call that?
        been too long in foreign parts...
 
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