The Soil Report
This may be a little Technical, but it has all the Requirements for a Geotechnical Soil Report for the State of Texas, btw, the State has none. No matter where you obtain your Geotechnical Soil Report, this will give you the Basic Guideline. Most cities require a Geotechnical Soil Report in order to obtain a building permit.
GEOTECHNICAL SOIL REPORT REQUIREMENTS
The geotechnical soil report is intended to define the subsurface conditions and provide geotechnical conclusions and recommendations for design and construction of the project. A geological assessment or engineering geology report may be incorporated into or included as an appendix to the geotechnical soil report for the purpose of providing geologic information for the geotechnical engineer, explaining the implications of the subsurface conditions for appropriate project design and construction. The geotechnical soil report should include the following:
General
- Name, address, and phone number.
- Client for whom the geotechnical soil report was prepared.
- A description of the proposed project and its location.
- A site map of the area at a scale of 1":400' or larger. Geologic conditions, topography, and location of proposed structures are to be shown. A copy of published geologic maps shall also be provided.
- A review of the geologic history and history of prior excavation and fills.
- A field reconnaissance of the site and vicinity.
- A discussion of the engineering aspects of the site and proposed project. The discussion should address foundation types for proposed structures, retaining systems, grading considerations, stability of cut slopes and constructed embankments, settlement of the site and adjacent sites due to existing conditions, proposed surface and subsurface drainage facilities.
GEOTECHNICAL FIELD INVESTIGATIONS
- Planned construction:type of structure and use, type of construction and foundation, floor system, number of stories, estimated structural loads.
- Scope:date of work done, investigative methods, sampling methods, logs of borings or test pits, elevations of borings or test pits for reference of materials and samples to finished grade or footing elevations, identify real or assumed elevations.
- Location of all samples taken, surface and subsurface.
- Groundwater conditions and potential:future natural and artificial seepage effects.
ENGINEERING:MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TESTING
- Test methods used, type or condition of samples, applicable engineering graphics and calculations, results of all tests, and sample locations of all test samples.
- Unified Soil Classifications of Materials.
- Material competency and strength of existing soils.
- Pertinent engineering geologic attributes (clayey, weak, loose, alignments, fissility, planar boundaries, pervious or water-bearing parts, susceptibility to mass wasting, erosion, piping, or compressibility).
- Effects and extent of weathering (existing and relationship to project design and future site stability, material strength).
- Field moisture content.
- Bearing capacity and/or shear strength of areas affected by future foundation placement (drained or undrained conditions, effective stress or total stress analysis, in-situ or remolded samples must be identified).
- Consolidation or settlement potential.
- Expansion potential.
- Maximum density-optimum moisture parameters of proposed fill material.
Update
Bob is in no rush to go back to drilling. Trying to pick out the best position for me. After going thru the divorce from hell, two years ago. You can read about the divorce from hell, here. Regardless, Bob is a driller. Always will be, eventhough this is the longest stretch that I have ever gone thru without drilling. I did drill some postholes with a bobcat last week.:)
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Soil Report Analysis
