PROJ00143

• Contract/PO #: C153810
• Contractor Name: Wood Lake Mutual Water & Irrigation Company
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 1
• County: Weld
• Bill Number: SB 97-008
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Speak with the geotechnical consultant to learn if
additional tests are advisable before construction
starts, Construction operations at or adjacem to
the site, and natural events such as floods,
earthquakes, or groundwater fluctuations will
affect subsurface conditions and thus affect the
adequacy of the geotechnical reporl. The
geolechnical engineer should be consulted on any
such events to determine if additional lests are
necessary,

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GEOTECHNICAL SERVICES ARE
PERFORMED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
AND PERSONS.
Geotechnical engineers' reports are prepared to
meet the specific needs of specific individual. A
report prepared for a consulting civil engineer
may not be adequate for a construction contractor
or even some other consulting civil engineer.
Unless indicated otherwise, this report was
prepared expressly for the Clie!lI involved and
expressly for purposed indicated by the client,
Use by any other persons' for any purpose, or by
the client for a differem purpose, may result in
problems, No individual other Ihall the clielll
should apply this report for ils imellded purpose
withoul first consullillg with a qualified
geolechnical engineer. No person should apply
this report for any purpose other Ihan thai il was
inllially Intended withoUl firsl conferrillg with a
geotechnical engineer.

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A GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
REPORT IS SUBJECT TO
MISINTERPRET A Tl ON,
Costly problems can occur when other design
professionals develop their plans based on
misinterpretations of a geotechnical engineering
reporl. To help avoid these problems, a
geotechnical engineer should be retained to work
wilh other appropriate design professionals to
explain relevant geotechnical findings and to

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review the adequacy of their plans and
specifications relative to geotechnical issues.

BORING LOGS SHOULD NOT BE
SEPARATED FROM THE ENGINEERING
REPORT,
Final boring logs are developed by geotechnical
engineers based on their inlerpretalion of their
field lags and laboratory evalualion of field
samples, Only final boring logs customarily are
included in geotechnical rcports, These logs
should not be reproduced for inclusion in
architectural or other drawings because drafters
may commit errors or omissions in (he transfer
process, Although xerox reproduction elimioales
this problem, it does nothing to minimize the
possibility of contraclDrs misinterpreting the logs
during bid preparation, When this occurs,
delays, dispules, and unanticipated costs may
result. To minimize the likelihood of horing log
misinterpretation, give contractors ready access
to the complete geotechnical engineering report
prepared for the project. Those \1,.'110 do llot
provide such access may proceed under Ihe
mistaken impression that simply disclaiming
responsibility for the accuracy of subsurface
information always insulates them from allendant
liability, Providing the best available information
to contractors helps to prevent costly conslruction
problems which may occur.

OTHER STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO
REDUCE RISK.
Your consulting geotechnical engineer will be
pleased to discuss other techniques which can be
employed to minimize any risk, In addition,
many engineering organizations have developed
a variety of materials which may be beneficial.