| Location: | Los Angeles County, California |
| Client(s): | County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County |
| Key Personnel: | Suji Somasundaram, Grant Miller, Kris Khilnani |
| Completion Date: | 2002 |
| Description: | • 25 exploratory borings up to 540 feet deep totaling 4,700 linear feet using continuous HQ and NQ coring, hollow stem auger, bucket auger and rotary wash drilling methods
• Development of 16 detailed geologic cross-sections
• Laboratory test program including shear strength by triaxial and direct shear, unsaturated hydraulic characteristics, compressibility and moduli/Poisson’s ratio
• Seismic stability/deformation analysis of fill slopes (2-D and 3-D); liquefaction and settlement potential of alluvium
• Geotechnical input to preparation of TDR |