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General Soils Testing Services
Soils, Sediment & Subsurface, Inc. (S3 Soils)
utilizes a Simco®
Earthprobe 200®
rig for the auger drilling. The Simco rig is mounted on a John Deere Pro
Gator®,
which is approximately five (5) feet wide and approximately ten (10) feet long.
The unit is pulled to the site on a flat-bed trailer and the rig is unloaded
in public access areas, thus minimizing disturbance to the site from travel.
This allows the unit as a whole to access most areas, which is very useful when
accessing wooded parcels or the yard areas of existing homes. S3 Soils
also owns a Simco®
2400 trailer mounted rig, which was recently rebuilt and updated.
This rig is utilized for Standard Penetration Testing (SPT) and for deeper
borings, such as coastal piling homes or larger commercial buildings.
Photo of S3 Soils rebuilt Simco 2400
Drill Rig Photo of Simco 2400
Drill Rig conducting SPT boring.
Investigations and Analysis:
- Slope Stability Analysis and Design
- Retaining Wall Soils Analysis and
Design
- Residential Structural Observation
Letters
Drill Rig Capabilities:
- Solid flight auger borings.
- Hollow-stem auger borings (4-inch &
6-inch inside diameters).
- Direct-push soil sampling with a
five-foot long by 2-inch diameter heavy duty lined sampler.
- Thin-walled (Shelby tube) soil
sampling at discrete depths.
Field Testing Capabilities:
- Hand auger borings.
- Seasonal high groundwater
determination borings.
- Calibrated Drive-tube soil compaction
testing.
- Dry and Wet Unit Weight of in-place
soils (lbs/ft3).
- Cased Falling-head piezometer testing
for horizontal soil infiltration rates.
- Double ring Infiltrometer testing for
vertical soil infiltration rates.
- State of Florida On-site Wastewater
system soils evaluation (per Florida Dept. of Health
Guidelines).
- State of Georgia Level 3 Soil
Classification for On-site wastewater systems (per Georgia
Dept. of Human Resources).
- Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) soils
testing to determine soil resistance to penetration load.
- Standard Penetration Test (SPT) soils
testing to determine soil resistance to penetration load.
New Construction:
- S3 Soils provides
residential soil borings usually to a depth of 10 feet in order to provide a
general indication of soils that are present at the tested areas.
Typically, the borings investigate for the presence of pipe clay (fat clay
or elastic silt), shallow groundwater, buried debris, organic material, or
voids. S3 Soils
also provides Flood Elevation Determination Letters (Flood Letters) for
house sites located within Leon County (outside of Tallahassee City Limits).
Existing Structures:
- S3 Soils provides soil
testing and observation reports on structures that may have foundation
problems such as differential settlement or movement resulting in the
cracking or movement of the foundation, concrete block or the brick veneer.
Typically, cracking and movement within the foundation is found to be
directly related to the presence of buried organic material, buried
anthropogenic material, fat clay or elastic silt (pipe clay), or loose fill
soils which were not properly compacted during construction/installation.
If the testing reveals issues related to the existing soils, S3 Soils
can provide a solution/design to offset the problematic soil conditions. S3 Soils
works with foundation system companies to provide the installation of the
designed foundation system.
Drainage Studies
- S3 Soils provides drainage
studies on projects ranging from individual berm, swale, or ditch studies
for homes to localized basin studies for stormwater models and calculations.
In most cases S3 Soils can assist the
Client with a design or concept plan to "offset" most any encountered soil
conditions.
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