Title Page

  • Client / Site

  • Site Address
  • Licensed Professional

  • Date and time

Geotechnical Report Checklist

Professional Registration

  • Professional Geologist or Engineer Seal

Cover Sheet & Data Summary

  • Completed Cover Sheet

  • Completed Data Summary For Technical Reports

Site Background & History

  • Site ID, ownership, operations and use.

  • Color copy of a map showing site location.

  • Description of current/historical, known/potential, contamination sources.

  • Description of all known discharges.

  • List and brief summary of all governmental records reviewed.

  • Historical map and aerial photo review summary.

Site Plan

  • A title, legend and true north arrow

  • Drawn to scale with a graphic scale bar

  • Source/creator of the plan

  • Location, elevation and datum of a permanent recoverable bench mark.

  • Surface topography using spot elevations, contours or noted changes in slope

  • Complete site property boundaries

  • Site Features

  • Public and environmental receptors

Site & Regional Hydrogeology

  • Description of stratigraphy, lithology, hydrology & contaminant flow

  • Geologic cross-sections

  • Potentiometric surface map w/ gw flow direction

Data Presentation

  • Groundwater and soil summary tables

Conceptual Model: Groundwater Contamination

  • Description of dissolved phase groundwater plume transport mechanisms, migration pathways and degradation pathways

  • Description of known or suspected sources of the contaminants detected in the groundwater (i.e., soil contamination, free product, waste storage areas, AST/UST systems, unreported discharges, etc.)

  • Groundwater contaminant concentration contours on the site plan and geologic cross-section(s) depicting lateral and vertical extent of representative contaminants exceeding standards.

  • Discussion of contaminants that are considered outliers or have no identified source. Provide data to substantiate off-site source claims.

  • Estimate of the mass of contaminated groundwater exceeding cleanup standards

  • Potential receptor map identifying and locating receptors within 1,000’ and list of water supply wells

Conceptual Model: Soil Contamination

  • Soil contaminant concentration contours on the site plan and geologic cross-section(s) depicting the lateral and vertical extent of representative contaminants exceeding cleanup standards

  • The estimated mass/volume of contaminated soil exceeding cleanup standards (not required if a source area is not present).

Conceptual Model: Indoor Vapor Intrusion

  • Identify, describe and explain potential pathways for indoor vapor intrusion, identify any exceedences, soil vapor monitoring or indoor air screening results (PID/FID meter readings), and provide recommendations for additional vapor intrusion study.

  • If pathway is complete and vapor intrusion is identified, provide indoor air monitoring results with comparison to standards and proposed abatement measures.

Remedial Alternatives & Recommendations

  • The Geotechnical Report must include either a, b, c or d and, if AGQS is exceeded, a GMZ depiction.

  • a. Closure recommended: Describe how site conditions meet closure requirements.

  • b. Recommendations for additional investigations and/or initial response actions: This shall include the steps necessary to finalize the groundwater management zone boundary and delineate source areas. Show all proposed explorations and sampling locations on a site plan.

  • c. Provide a preliminary screening of remedial alternatives: Including a description of the recommended remedial action and steps necessary to implement the recommended remedial action.

  • d. Interim response actions or presumptive remedy.

  • e. Preliminary GMZ boundary depiction.

Appendices

  • Colored photos of key features.

  • Description of field procedures for installing wells and sampling including sample preservation.

  • Field screening data.

  • Boring logs with PID results and monitoring well construction details.

  • Analytical data including chain of custody and holding times.

  • Detailed calculations.

  • Water Well Board Completion Report Prepared by Licensed Technical Driller.

Completion

  • Comments/ Recommendations

  • Name and signature of licensed professional

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