Desk
Study
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DESK
STUDY
Every site investigation should begin with a desk study.
This is an
office- based exercise in collating all available published information.
An
initial walk over / site visit is made during the desk study.
The desk study includes :-
- Review
of historical mapping,
- Aerial
photographs,
- Geological
maps,
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BGS borehole logs,
- Groundwater
vulnerability maps,
- Mining
records,
- Planning
records,
- Contaminated
land / landfill directories,
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Local library records,
- Business
directories,
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Interviews with local sources,
- Statutory
service records,
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Previous site investigation reports,
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Regulatory bodies and the physical inspection / reconnaissance of the
site and environs.
Once the site has been seen and desk study information studied the ground
conditions are more readily visualised and a conceptual model of the site
can be built up. Any potential difficult ground conditions e.g soft and
variable drift materials, man-made caves, landfill gases, potentially
contaminative past activities that have taken place on the site etc. can
be better understood.
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