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Working Partial List of Clients by Category (sorting ongoing, 1/20/2013)

Cities, Counties, Service Districts
Arcata Fire Department, Arcata, CA
City of Arcata, CA
City of Brookings, OR
City of Rio Dell, CA
City of Trinidad, CA
City of Westport, CA
Curry Co. Planning Department, Gold Beach, OR
Del Norte County, Crescent City, CA
Eureka City Schools, Eureka, CA
Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District, Eureka, CA
McKinleyville Community Services District, CA

Churches
Brookings-Harbor Christian Church, Brookings, OR
Church of the Nazarene, Brookings, OR
First Baptist Church, Arcata, CA
Saint Timothy's Episcopal Church, Brookings, OR

Communication Companies

Contractors
Alternative Building Services, McKinleyville, CA
Anglo Construction, Bandon, OR
Chinquapin Builders Group, ##, ##
G. N. Ball, ##, CA
Hemmingsen ##, Crescent City, CA
JCL ##, ##, CA
JML Builders, ##, CA
JLF Construction, McKinleyville, CA
McLennan Contractors, Harbor, OR
Meng-Hannan Construction Inc., Portland, Oregon
Noonan Construction, Trinidad, CA
Ray Wolfe Construction, Trinidad, CA
Redwood Coast Builders, ##, CA

Developers / Builders
Bruce Brothers Construction, Brookings, OR
Coastal Care Centers, Eureka, CA
Coombs Tree Farm, Fortuna, CA (Ret.)
Creating Smarter Branches, Salt Lake City, Utah
Danco Builders, Arcata, CA
Development Consultants Inc., El Dorado Hills, CA
Double B Corporation, Fortuna, CA
Eagle Cap Rentals, Brookings, OR
GraceCo, Eureka, CA
Granite Bay Holdings, Granite Bay, CA
Hammonds Construction, Medford, OR
Hughes Commercial Development, Salida, CA
Marsh Construction, Port Orford, Oregon
Menasha Development Corp., North Bend, OR
Pacific Properties, Chico, CA
Pacific Vista Subdivision, Gold Beach, OR
Pavlich Construction, Eureka, CA
Reservation Ranch, Smith River, CA

Engineering Firms
Anvick Engineering, Arcata, CA
Atlas Engineering, Arcata, CA
Dyer Partners, Coos Bay, OR
Omsberg & Associates, Eureka, CA
Ontiveros & Associates, Fortuna, CA
Oscar Larson & Associates, Eureka, CA
Pacific Affiliates, Eureka, CA
Penfold Engineering, Eureka, CA
Schlumpberger Engineering, Mt. Shasta, CA
Spencer Engineering, McKinleyville, CA (Ret.)
Stover Engineering, Crescent City, CA
Trinity Valley Consulting Engineers, Willow Creek, CA
W. B. Sweet Engineering, Arcata (Ret.)
Winzler & Kelly (now GHD Inc.),
Eureka, CA

Financial Institutions
Bank of the West (North Valley Bank), Garberville, CA
Chetco Federal Credit Union (CFCU), Harbor, OR
Coast Central Credit Union (CCCU), Eureka, CA
JPMorgan-Chase Bank, ##, Florida

Insurance Companies
All State Insurance Co., Roseville, CA
Allied Insurance, Eureka, CA
California Veterans Insurance, ##, CA
Farmer's Insurance Co., ##
State Farm Insurance Co., ##, CA

Native Americans


Timber Companies
Barnum Timber Co., Cutten, CA
Campbell Timberland Management, Fort Bragg, CA
Fruit Growers Supply, ##, CA
Gazelle Land & Timber Co., ##, CA
Georgia-Pacific Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, CA
Hoopa Tribal Forestry, Hoopa, CA
Pacific Lumber Co. (now ##), Scotia, CA
Z Logging, Orick, CA

Azalea Alliance, West Haven, CA
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio
Baywood Golf Course & Country Club, Arcata, CA
Beau Pre Golf Course, McKinleyville, CA
Brook-Haven Home Owners Association, Brookings, OR
By-the-Sea Homes, Harbor, OR
Century 21 Agate Beach Realty, Brookings, OR
C.I.G. ##, ##
Complete Wireless Consulting, Sacramento, CA
Cyberhut, Blue Lake, CA
Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, Emeryville, CA
Ferndale Survey Co., Ferndale, CA
General Machine Co., Arcata, CA
Hampton Inn (Crescent City, CA)
Hoopa Health Association, Hoopa, CA
Hoopa Tribal EPA, Hoopa, CA
Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District, Eureka, CA
Humboldt Botanical Gardens, College of the Redwoods
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
JPMorgan-Chase Bank, Jacksonville, Florida
Karuk Tribe, ##
Ladd & Associates, ##, ##
Lindstrom Builders, ##, CA
Matthews & Kluck (now Kluck & ##), Eureka, CA
McBain & Trush, Arcata, CA
McDonalds, Brookings, OR
McKinleyville Community Services District, CA
Nordby Construction Co., Santa Rosa, CA
Northcoast Cellular, ##, ##
Northcoast Fabricators, Fortuna, CA
Northcoast Preparatory Acadamy, Arcata, CA
Ocean Suites, Harbor, OR
Oil Can Henry's, ##
PWM, ##, CA
Psomas ##, ##
RADCO Communications, Carson City, Nevada
Radon Detection Services, ##, ##
Rainbow Rock Condomium Owners Assoc., Brookings, OR
Rainbow Rock Village Mobile Home Park, Brookings, OR
Real Wood, Inc. (Amarant), Blue Lake, CA
Redwood Community Action Agency, Eureka, CA
Redwood Memorial Hospital, Fortuna, CA
Redwood Oil Company, Rohnert Park, CA
Resighnini Rancheria, Klamath, CA
Rich's Well Drilling, ##, CA
Saint Joseph's Hospital, Eureka, CA
Scheve Quarry, Gasquet, CA
Sebastian Shores Home Owners Assoc., Gold Beach, OR
Simpson Lumber Company, ##, CA
Six Rivers Solar, Eureka, CA
Small World Construction, Arcata, CA (Ret.)
Smith River Rancheria (Tolowa Tribe), Smith River, CA
St. Maru Lane Road Committee, McKinleyville, CA
Stadleman Electric, Brookings, OR
Strombeck Construction, Eureka, CA##
Strombeck ##Construction, Eureka, CA
Structura Naturalis, Inc., ##
T-Mobile, ##, CA
Texaco ##, Tompkins Gas Field, Fortuna, CA
The Cove ##, Brookings, OR
Trinidad Rancheria (Yurok Tribe), Trinidad, CA
United Parcel Service, Harbor, Oregon
U S Cellular
Valdell Development, Petaluma, CA (Ret.)
Verizon, Calabasas, CA
Yurok Tribe, Klamath, CA
Walton Developments##, Bend, OR
Westport County Water District, Westport, CA
William Barnum, Attorney at Law, Eureka, CA
Zia Dream Homes, Brookings, OR

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Chetco Federal Credit Union hired BGC to provide soils information to support the design of the Crescent City branch office.

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Coast Central Credit Union hired us to provide a foundation soils and geo-hazard assessment for the lMcKinleyville Branch office.

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Since 1986, Winzler & Kelly Consulting Engineers (now DBH Inc.) has hired Busch Geotechnical to provide geologic information to support projects including water tank installations and repairs, seismic retrofits, road and utility corridor construction, and design of structures.

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The McKinleyville Community Services District hired BGC geologists to provide underground mapping of a large land tract to assess its potential to handle large volumes of treated effluent.

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Lenders, Owners, Sellers, Buyers, and Potential Buyers have hired BGC to assess the risk to homes in Nesika Beach, OR, a chronically eroding coastal strand, and on many other shorelines and hillslopes..

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Individual homeowners building their dream home or retirement home or starter home have hired us to provide the required regulatory reports and the necessary engineering design information.

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Real Estate Brokers and Agents, concerned about their liability, have hired BGC to evaluate property conditions independent of their clients.  Here, the columns in this new high-end home are out-of-plumb: the bottom of each column is kicked out to the left, toward a steep slope below the home.  The piers supporting the decks were not embedded deeply enough.

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Cellular Tower Companies or Their Agents have hired BGC to provide site reports and constructon monitoring.  Here is one big hole for a cell tower foundation in Fortuna.  It's ready for a rebar cage.  The next photo shows just how big.

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Many Different Developers from Many Different States have hired us to support their work.  We typically provide foundation soil information, hazards and risk analysis, support for the project engineer or architect, and follow-up construction monitoring.  Here's the Hampton Inn in Crescent City.  It required an exceptionally thorough report for the California Coastal Commission.

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Cities, Counties, and their Engineers have hired BGC to provide stability analyses for water tanks, utilities lines, community wastewater disposal fields, and roads.  Here is a drill rig perched on an unstable bluff top threatening a part of a community wastewater treatment facility.  The neon line is the footprint of a proposed deep wall.

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Individuals, Contractors, and Engineers have hired BGC to provide soil parameters to support design work.  Here's part of the firm's Arcata, CA, soils lab.

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Quarry Owners and Potential Quarry Owners have hired BGC to assess rock and over-burden volume and quality, provide stability analyses, and monitor erosion-control structures to keep the quarry in compliance with State laws.  This is the largest working face of the Scheve Quarry in Gasquet.  Improperly managed operations could cause sediment to enter the pristine Smith River.

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Individuals and Firms have hired us to install and monitor unstable and questionably stable hillslopes (and sometimes structures).  Here is the slope inclinometer setup--datamate, cable, and sensor (already down-hole)--ready to monitor a casing that we installed on a bluff top.  Note the cracks left (upslope) of the casing.

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