GEOTECHNICAL CORE DRILLING, SOIL SAMPLING, AND LABORATORY TESTING
USACE, Galveston District W912HY‐13‐D‐0001
Government & Industry in Harmony with the Environment
1.0
Introduction
Task Order DY08, Core Drilling, Soil Sampling, and Laboratory Testing for the Port Arthur
Resident Office Shoreline Stabilization project, Port Arthur, Texas, was awarded to Quaternary
Resource Investigations, LLC (QRI) on November 19, 2013 (Notice to Proceed (NTP) received on
November 29, 2013). The primary purpose of this Task Order was to obtain geotechnical
information for shoreline stabilization at the Port Arthur Resident Office, Jefferson County,
Texas. A total of 5 borings, numbered 13‐1001 through 13‐1005, were drilled to depths of 80
and 100 feet as shown on
Table 1
below.
2.0
Borings
Below is a table summarizing the 5 borings drilled under Task Order DY08. The table includes
Boring Number, Investigation Feature, Depth (ft), and a description of unusual subsurface
conditions or difficulties in drilling that were encountered (if any). Boring Summary Sheets and
Field boring logs (
Appendix A
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Table 1
Boring
Investigation Feature
Depth (ft)
Conditions / Difficulties Encountered
13‐1001
East Bank SNWW PARO
100
See boring log
13‐1002
East Bank SNWW PARO
80
See boring log
13‐1003
East Bank SNWW PARO
100
See boring log
13‐1004
East Bank SNWW PARO
80
See boring log
13‐1005
East Bank SNWW PARO
100
See boring log
Final gINT Boring Logs are included in
(
Appendix B
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3.0
Test data
As per the Table of Required Services, test assignments were provided by the USACE POC as
listed in Table 2. All tests were performed by QRI’s contract laboratory, Terracon Consultants,
Inc., on portions of the samples that were considered representative of the predominant
material composition of the overall sample. The laboratory recorded on the final summary
sheets the results of unit dry weight tests, moisture content tests, and visual classifications
incidental to performing unconfined compression tests, triaxial tests (including UU and CU
tests), and other tests. Results of moisture content testing and visual classifications incidental
to performing moisture content, unit dry weight, Atterberg limits, and sieve analyses, were also
included on the final test summary sheets provided by the laboratory. A complete set of
BORING ID:
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