A. It shall be the responsibility of the civil engineer, architect or other qualified individual who prepared the grading plan approved by the city official to incorporate all recommendations from the soil engineering and engineering geology reports into the grading plan. He shall also be responsible for the professional inspection and approval of the grading within his area of technical specialty. This responsibility shall include, but need not be limited to, inspection and approval as to the establishment of line, grade and drainage of the development area. The project civil engineer and/or general contractor shall act as the coordinating agent in the event the need arises for liaison between the project professional grading contractor, and the city official, the civil engineer or other qualified person who prepares and signs the grading control plans, and the submission of as-graded grading plans when required by the city official upon completion of the work.
B. Soil engineering and engineering geology reports shall be required as specified in Section 15.12.180 of this code. During grading, all necessary reports, compaction data, soil engineering and engineering geology recommendations shall be submitted to the owner by the soil engineer and engineering geologist. The owner shall submit copies of the report to the civil engineer and two copies of all reports to the city official.
C. The soil engineer’s area of responsibility shall include, but need not be limited to, the professional inspection and approval concerning the preparation of ground to receive fills, testing for required compaction, stability of all finish slopes, design of buttress fills, subdrain installation and incorporation of data supplied by the engineering geologist.
D. The engineering geologist’s area of responsibility shall include, but need not be limited to, professional inspection and written approval of the adequacy of natural ground for receiving fills, the stability of cut slopes with respect to geological matters, and the need for subdrains or other groundwater drainage devices. He shall report his finding to the soil engineer and the civil engineer for engineering analysis.
E. The city official may expeditiously inspect the project at the various stages of work requiring approval and at any more frequent intervals necessary to determine that adequate control is being exercised by the professional consultants.
F. When preliminary soil engineering reports are not required by the city official, he may require inspection and testing by an approved testing agency. The testing agency’s responsibility shall include, but need not be limited to, approval of cleared areas and benches to receive fill, and compaction of fills. (Ord. 48, 1990)