Location:
Cincinnati, Ohio

Owner:
Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati

Client:
PB Americas

Project Completion Date:
2009

Project Description:
Barr & Prevost was subcontracted to provide the geotechnical services involved in this sewer replacement project in Mt. Airy Park in the Cincinnati Park District.

Drilling and Sampling Responsibilities:

• Coordinated boring locations to avoid minimum disruption to streams, trees and park setting
• Drilled and extracted rock cores
• Noted depth at which ground water was encountered, and levels measured during and 24 hours after drilling
• Regraded the site upon completion to conform with the natural surroundings
• GPS survey equipment used to locate borings quickly without cutting trees that would be in line of sight per conventional surveying methods

Laboratory Testing and Engineering Responsibilities:

• Conducted testing to Client’s specifications:

- Moisture Content Determination
- Classification
- Unconfined Compression (Shelby tube and rock core)

• Direct shear testing of rock cores and triaxial shear testing of Shelby tube samples

Report Production Responsibilities:
Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Mr. Stuart Edwards produced a final report summarizing the field exploration and laboratory testing findings after the investigative phase was completed.  Boring logs and test results were included.