Geotechnical Support
Geotechnical Peer Review for Public Agencies
Technical Support for Insurance Claims Evaluations
Expert Witness Services for Mediations and Arbitrations

Community Geologic and Geotechnical Review - CSA serves as the City or Town Geologist/Geotechnical Consultant for numerous municipalities in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Metropolitan areas. In this capacity, we are responsible for peer review of engineering geologic and geotechnical investigations of proposed hillside residential developments conducted within these areas. In addition, the Counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey have retained CSA on matters pertaining to unstable slopes and their potential impacts on public works. We also perform specialized landslide and earthquake hazard investigations and reviews for departments and agencies of the Counties of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. Following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, we performed hundreds of rapid geologic hazard assessments for post-earthquake reconstruction applications for the County of Santa Cruz. Likewise, we have performed damage assessments for several hillside communities following extreme rain seasons associated with El Nino events.


Peer Review (pdf)
Litigation Support Services (pdf)

“Unfortunately, soils are made by nature and not by man and the products of nature are always complex…”
– Karl Terzaghi, 1936

 

Also in this section:

Geological Assessments
Engineering Design
Geological Engineering
Geotechnical Support

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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