Below,
you will find the a list of supplies and equipment for subsurface investigations.
It is our intent that organizations and individuals can use this list to better
prepare to go into the field, to be safe, productive and comfortable while conducting
subsurface investigations. This
Draft List was developed by several colleagues and I, who have had the opportunity
to visit thousands of active contaminated sites, globally since the 1980s, and
review hundreds of organizations standard operating procedures, but it is
a dynamic document and not finished. If you feel the list is not complete or you
feel some commentary is required, your detailed additions and constructive comments
are welcome. Useful would be hyperlinks to suppliers that you recommend or rationales
for specific pieces of equipment or pictures.
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Supplies for Subsurface Investigations All
Materials should be laid out on a tarp and tested prior to leaving the office
to ensure that all equipment or materials are present and in working order. The
reverse should occur when departing from the site to ensure that all materials
are accounted for. This is especially important for remote location work. Photographs
should be taken at each point. Printed Material and Writing
Instruments
(Note: All this material should be also be scanned and
present on your field portable smartphone or computer) Field Package
in weather (water) proof complete container or work case. - Clip board
- Health
& safety information
- Scope of work
- Health and safety plan
- Location
and site map
- Air photos
- Site plan - sampling locations
- Geophysical
survey
- All paperwork for up-to-date utility locates
- Emergency
contacts,
- Sign - in sheets (Daily + overall arrival/departure dates)
-
MSDS Folder and WHMIS Labels
- Safety signage and applicable field forms
- Field
Procedures/standard operating procedures (May be Electronic)
- Laminated
Soil classification table and charts - Include Munsell Soil and Rock Colour books/charts.
- Laminated
Truck Capacity and Stockpile/Confirmatory Sampling Guide
- McCullough Geo
Guide Card and Geotechnical Gauge
- Glued References for Grain Size and
Angularity ("Sand Card" - Geological Society of America GRN001)
- Field/Log
book (Water proof pages) - Rite In the Rain - Field Book
- Notebook (Water
proof pages)
- Borehole/monitoring, well development and Purging Forms/Records,
Low flow and other sampling forms sampling forms weather proof paper
- Sampling
and field form binder
- Aquifer test data forms (when conducting slug tests)
- Waterproof
and permanent marking Pens and Pencils (Minimum 2 each)
- Paper clips, elastic
bands, envelopes, etc.
- Extra large zip lock bags to protect documents
Tools
Note: You will not able to take all of these into the field with
you. Identify the scope of work and issues you may face at your site. Plan, develop
contingencies and select your tools on what you can use efficiently and effectively.
- Acid
bottle
- Bailer Retriever (Conbar 5430 or Heavy duty fishing line or stainless
steel wire (aircraft cable) and a large fishing lure (with barbs removed) to retrieve
lost bailers, tubing or broken interface probes from down a well)
- Bladder
Pump
- Blank Tags (or Valve Tags & Stamps)
- Bolt Snaps
- Box
end and pipe wrenches
- Bung wrench
- Cable ties
- Cave Line
(High-Vis Dacron or #24 Nylon)
- Chain Wrench (oil filter wrench)
- Chalk
(Several Colours)
- Channel Lock Pliers (Slip Joint Plier)
- Clean,
Stainless Steel Bowls
- Compass - Bruynton or Clar-type
- Cordless
Drill
- Crowbar, Cats Paw or Stanley Fubar Demo Tool
- Discharge Hose/Waterra
- Disposable
Bailers (1L or 200mL), 1.6" O.D.
- Dremel (Hi Speed Rotary Tool)
- Duct
tape and/or Waterproof Duct Tape (Gorilla Tape)
- Electrical Tape or Self-Fusing
Silicone Tape (Tommy Tape)
- Engineer's Scales (Imperial and Metric as Appropriate)
- Epoxy
Putty Stick
- Field Vane and Torque Wrench
- Garbage Bags - Clear
- Grundfos Redi-Flo 3
- Hacksaw
- Hand and/or Ice Auger - latter
is a Canadian thing
- Hand Lens (Loupe - Ruper, Hastings, Coddington)
- Hand-level/Inclinometer
- Hip
Chain
- Hydrolift
- Internal pipe cut-off tool (cut off 2" and
4" PVC from INSIDE the pipe)
- Inverter (12 v Car Battery to 120 VAC)
- Keys for well locks
- Knife
- Kolor Kut Gasoline Gauging
Paste (Historical)
- Large Crescent Wrench (Monkey Wrench)
- Large
Flathead Screwdriver
- Large In-line Filters (0.45 micron)
- Large
Treble Fishing Hook and Several Meters of High Test and/or Steel Leader (Fishing
Kit).
- Lighter
- Magnetic or Adhesive Vehicle Door Logos
- Master
key (read bolt cutters)
- Measuring Wheel
- Min 30 m steel or fibre-glass
reel measuring tape divided in 0.01 m or less
- Min. 15 ft steel tape divided
in 0.01 ft intervals (Decimal feet for Rock Logging: e.g., Lufkin HV1034DM)
Multi-tool
(Saw, Scissors, Phillips - e.g., Leatherman) - Pad Locks
- Paint Pen
(for permanently marking metal) for well identification
- Peristaltic Pump
- Pick/Hammer
Drill (as necessary)
- Plastic geotech sample bags
- Pocket Penetrometer
or TorVane
- Pre-Printed Field Forms, Partially Completed Labels
- Pulaski
or E-tool (Entrenching Tool: Folding Pick and Shovel)
- PVC Typhoon 12V
Pump
- Rare Earth Magnet (Magnetic Pick Up - Store Away from Electronic
Media, Compasses).
- Rebar "T" Handle for Manhole & Catchbasin
Covers
- Sampling tools, usually a split spoon is preferred or thin-walled
(or Shelby) tubes.
- Screwdriver flat and Philips head
- Screws for
attaching well ID plate.
- Sheet Metal Shears
- Silicon Friction radiator
hose repair tape
- Small propane torch for heating rusted, iced-in or frozen
well casing bolts
- Small Allen Key Set
- Small Dropper bottle with
Dilute HCL (Carbonate Test)
- Small Hand Axe
- Small Socket Set
- Soil
Disposal Drums
- Spade/Shovel/Trenching Shovel ("Sharp Shooter")
- Spare
locks
- Spares (in Ziploc) - J-plugs for 1 1/4" PVC
- Spares
(in Ziploc) - J-plugs for 2" PVC
- Spares (in Ziploc) - One (1) metre
silastic tubing (geopump head tubing: 16mm (5/8") OD)
- Spares (in
Ziploc) - three (3) Ea. Waterra D-25, D-16 and D-13 Foot valves
- Spill
Kit - Absorbant Pads
- Spool of General Purpose 16 mm Nylon Twine (#18)
- Stainless
steel/Teflon for metals soil sampling tools (trowel or shovel)
- Straight
Edge, Protractor or Steel Carpenters/Machinist's Protractor
- Strap on tool
belt
- Sudan IV or Oil Red O (Shake Flask Free Product Test - Historical)
- Tape
measured in 0.1 cm increments (weighted)
- Teflon Tape
- Torx and
Robertson Bits
- Tubing Cutter
- Turkey Baster - for removing minor
water inflow or snow/ice melt in to a flush-mount well casing (provided well is
not compromised so as to prohibit sampling)
- Vise Grips
- Wash bottle
- Water Containment Drums - Twenty-litre bucket(s), with graduated markings
to collect and measure quantity of well purge water; and a funnel to transfer
purge water to containment drum
- Water Level meter/interface probe - for
measuring water levels and product thickness in wells
- Well Cap Tool (aka
the small bronze "T" handle)
- Well tool or a set of hex keys
- Wind
speed Metre (Kestrel or Speedtech, w/ or w/o thermo, baro. and rel. humidity)
- Zipties
("Zap Straps")
- "Goon Spoon" - Extended Spoon for Soil
Collection on Borehole Wall
- (Rock) Hardness Pick Set
- 1/2"
LDPE Tubing
- 1/4" LDPE Tubing & Special SS-10 (micro) footvalves
- 100ft
(30 m) Interface Probe
- 12 V Lead-Acid Battery
- 20 oz. or 22 oz.
Geologist's Hammer (Estwing)
- 25 metre tape measure
- 3/8" LDPE
Tubing
36" Bolt Cutters - 5 Pound Sledge and 1' to 2 ' rebar pieces
- 5/8"
Waterra HDPE / LDPE Tubing
- 5-metre tape measure (for strapping in drill
rods - some are not standard length - and measuring from a reference point on
drill to the ground surface for depth measurement control).
Ground
Cover - Plastic bags (or equivalent, zip lock) for soil vapour measurements
- Clear
large Construction/commercial Grade Garbage bags for disposal and/or ground cover
- Tarps
(5'x8' or 8'x10') - for ground but also to line inside or trunk of car or truck
for transport of materials
- Field portable table
- Painting drop
sheets for borehole logging or profiling and/or protective ground cover.
- 4-6
Stakes to hold down tarp or ground cover
- Traffic Control Equipment (Minimum
four collapsible pylons)
Survey or location/delineation
marking
- Survey stakes
- Flagging Tape
- "Caution"
Tape (Barricade Tape)
- Spray Paint, Orange (double-bagged in Ziploc)
- Flagging
Tape (Two colors)
- Utility Survey Flags (Two colors - 14-18 inch)
Laboratory - Clean
cooler, ice cubes/freezer packs, and laboratory chain-of-custody forms and extras
- Self
adhesive labels
- Packing Tape
- Pre-labeled containers if weather
is inclement (precipitation or temperature extreme issues)
- Laboratory
prepared sample bottles for each parameter and media to be tested.
Decontamination
- High-pressure steamer/cleanser (optional) (request from drilling
contractor)
- Long and short-handled bristle brushes
- Paper Towels
- 2-3
Wash/rinse tubs
- Phosphate Free Detergent
- Alconox or Liguinox
- Deionized
water - 20 Litres minimum
- Hand brush for boots
- Spray Bottle (s)
- Deionised
Water (Approx. 1 Gallon)
- Analytical grade propanol or methanol (decon)
- Clean
5 Gallon Buckets (Min. 2)
- Graduated Bucket or Large (2 L or larger) Cylinder
Electronics - Waterproof
case for Field Portable Computer/Tablet with satellite or wireless network connections.
- Battery Backups for electronics or car chargers and lots of batteries
- Smart
Phone with waterproof case - tethering enabled
- Camera and Video Camera
(Smart Phone) (Waterproof Case for camera would be beneficial) - GPS enabled,
Time/Date Stamp "On")
- Recreational-Grade WAAS enabled personal
GPS
- Infrared add-on for Smart Phone (i.e. FLIR)
- Ultraviolet light
or black light
- Waterproof Flashlight (Pelican or Mag) and/or Headlamp
(Surefire, Petzl)
- Calibrated Photoionization Detector (PID) (ppbRAE/MiniRAE
or similar) &/or Drager Tubes w/ Pump or FID (depending on weather) and/or
Gastechtor (as applicable)
- Personal Gas Monitor w/ O2 and H2S capacity
("4 gas"; "Confined Space Monitor", QRAE, GX-2009 or similar)
- YSI or Hanna Multi-Parameter Monitoring Sonde
- XRF
- Hanna
pH/EC/Temp and/or ORP "Pens"
- Colourmetric Field Kits (e.g.,
for Ferric vs. Ferrous Iron)
- Soil Moisture Meter
- Metal Detector
to find flush-mount well casings under snow, ice or gravel (Large stainless steel
nuts & bolts - place one set inside a flush-mount well casing so you can find
the well with your metal detector when it's covered with snow and ice)
- Drone
- Internet
access - i.e., wireless hub
- Downhole camera - (GO Pro will work)
General
Supplies - Supply of drinking water (1 day - minimum four litres)
- only in clean area after decontamination
- Flats of Drinking Water or
(Preferred) Carboys and Personal Bottles
- Food Supply (1 day) - - only
in clean area after decontamination
- Sanitary Wipes (Baby Wipes) - they
work on everything
- Toilet Paper
- Sun protection, cool down or warm
up area or rain protection - Tent, Cover, etc.
- Waterproof Duffle Bag
- Hand,
Foot and Body Warmers
- Back pack with rain cover.
Common
Sense - When in doubt reach out and contact someone.
Site
Safety Plan or Project Health & Safety Checklist
NOTE: All field
personnel must have completed their First Aid Training as well as a HAZWOPER 40-hour
course that has been reviewed and accepted by OSHA and/or taken their yearly refresher. Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) Personal protective equipment is designed
to protect against safety and/or health hazards. When operations and/or policies
dictate their use, such equipment is mandatory. Basic personal protective
equipment may include but not limited to: Head Protection - CSA/ANSI
approved hard hat (Class E, Unexpired. Reflective Tape. Last Name on Rear Exterior)s
will be worn on all projects requiring them at all times with neck protection.
Sun Hat with neck guard when hard hat not required. Foot
Protection - CSA/ANSI approved footwear should be worn on all projects at
all times. Foot protection should be decontaminated before entering any vehicles/structures
or leaving the dirty zone and/or leaving the sites. - Boot wash with
a brush to remove soil/contamination, should be situated at the entrance to the
first stage of the decontamination unit or be used prior to entering a vehicle
or exiting the site.
- Note some sites require full shank muckers (especially
mine sites and oil rigs)
- One pair of leather boots (dry environments)
with boot bag or case.
- One pair of chemical resistant rubber boots (wet
environments or liquid phase present) with boot bag or case.
- Kneepads -- those of you with bad knees will appreciate
this when kneeling on wet, rough or frozen ground around flush-mount wells
Respiratory
Protection - Work areas should be ventilated to reduce hazards from dust,
fumes, gases or vapours. - Where ventilation is not practical, workers
must be provided with respirators appropriate to the hazard and be trained to
use and maintain the respirators properly.
Eye and Face Protection
- CSA/ANSI approved safety glasses with side shields, goggles or face shield must
be worn by any employee who is exposed to the hazard of eye or face injury in
the performance of his/her work. Eye wash station (some times rigs do not have
this and if sampling required Hearing Protection - CSA/ANSI approved
hearing protection must be worn when the sound level in the work area exceeds
permissible exposure limits. Select ear plugs or muffs based upon expected noise
levels. Hand Protection - Appropriate gloves must be worn when handling
rough, sharp or hot objects and caustics, acids, solvents, concrete or chemicals.
i.e. Work gloves/rubber gloves/ industrial (NOT medical or food grade) nitrile
gloves or Chemical rated gloves (not nitrile). Some sites require Kevlar gloves
when using cutting tools (knives, scissors, and snips etc.).- Cut-Resistant Work
Gloves. Clothing - High visibility apparel ("Do not hit me"
or "I am not lost I am here" Vests) should be worn as well as cover
that is appropriate for the exposure that may be encountered (Tyvek suit and/or
(insulated/vented) coverall or overall). Disposable Level D (Tyvek - for Dust
& Spray) or Level C (Tychem/Chemtex/Pyrolon - for Splash) Coveralls at a minimum
in the field. Clothing shall be inspected for contamination and either bagged
for commercial laundry or stored for use the following day or disposed of appropriately.
No personal protection clothing worn on sites should be worn off-site or into
personal vehicles. Storage bag for field clothing. Short sleeves and shorts
are not permitted on a site unless under coveralls or tyvek suits . Shirts should
be button down with rear neck protection and front storage pocket - vents or wickable
panels under shoulders always preferred. Jeans although easy to find are not usually
acceptable at most sites as there is a tendency to get into vehicles or leave
site wearing potentially contaminated clothing. When jeans get wet they are wet
and heavy and uncomfortable all day. Three pairs of light weight hiking pants
to keep you cool and comfortable and dry quickly if wet weigh less then one pair
of jeans and take up less space.
Change of under clothes (wool socks,
underwear, etc).
Change of shirt and pants.
Rain/weather gear
if required. Towel.
Fire Extinguisher in vehicle.- UL Rated
ABC Fire Extinguisher (Min 5 lb; 20 lb in vehicle preferred) First Aid
Kits (one with field person and larger one in vehicle) - (incl. personal items
such as Aspirin/Ibuprofen, Sudafed, Gravol, etc that work for you). Level
1 First Aid Kit w/ Blankets (Shift of 2 - 5 Workers in a workplace of moderate
risk of injury and that is more than 20 Minutes travel time away from a hospital).
Fall Protection - When there is no other form of protection
from falling, personnel shall wear approved fall arrest equipment. Site
Safety Plan or Project Health & Safety Checklist - Hand washing
brush with nail scrubber.
- Air Horn or signal whistle (Fox 40, Windstorm
or similar)
- Sunblock, lip balm and insect repellent
- Maps
and directions to nearest hospital, police and fire hall
- MSDS sheets
on all potential contaminants, chemicals and materials being used (sand, bentonite,
cement, etc.)
- All should be put into the site health and safety field
binder.
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