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CHAPTER V

SITE SURVEY

5.1 RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY

A reconnaissance survey of the site has been done by study team to be familiarized with
the nature and condition of the site. The study team of consultant and the representatives
from the client together visited the site to carry out initial assessment and survey work
regarding the site boundary, to understand prevailing site conditions and to familiarize
with the site.

In order to carry out initial assessment and survey work, members of the study team
comprising Er ManojkumarChaudhary, Er Sikinder Kumar Chaudhary and Sushil
Karanjit visited the site on April 2013.

5.1.1 Meeting with stakeholders

To better understand the project, the meeting was conducted in coordination with
concerned representatives including Siyaram Prasad Singh (General Manager, DDC lain
chaur, lalitpur) at the premises of DDC office building on April 2013. During the
meeting, discussions regarding the general requirements were made.

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5.2. TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY

At this stage of inception phase, detailed topographical survey was not conducted in
present situation as the fixed boundary of the site was unavailable and also the water
logged within the site obstructed from the detailed survey works.However, digital
Landuse Map of municipalities of Kathmandu valleyand Google Satellite Map of January
2010 were overlaid together and taken as reference to understand the terrain of the site.

SITE TOPOGRAPHY MAP

5.3 SOIL SURVEY

For the soil feature study, at present, a cursory observation and desk study of the site was
done. As per the “Geological Map of Kathmandu valley” prepared by Department of
Mines and Geology, the project site lies in Kalimati Formation (Klm). The Kalimati
formation is characterized as “Grey to dark silty clay and clayey silt, at places calcareous

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nature and phosphate mineral (vivianite) organic clay, fine sand beds and peat layers
common; occasionally lignite seams up to 2 m. Total thickness up to 450 m or more”1

In general, Kathmandu valley is a synclinal tectonic basin consisting of fluvio-lacustrine

deposit of Pleistocene age resting on the Precambrian metamorphic bedrock. In the North
side of the valley, there is a thick formation of fluvial overburden whereas the South part
of the valley comprises dominantly of lacustrine deposit formed by the mechanical and
chemical weathering of rocks of surrounding hills of the valley. The products of the
weathering were transported by various agencies and the weathering products finally
were deposited on the bed of the lake. In general the clay layer is capped by sand and silt
overburden. The clay deposit is occasionally organic in nature and is compressible.

As per the site condition and local geology, rotary/percussion drilling would be an
appropriate instrument to carry out the drilling work. To achieve 100 mm diameter
samples at deeper depth, percussion drilling is more convenient to rotary drilling.
Standard Penetration test at an interval of 1.5 meter starting from 1.50meter from the
original ground level would reveal the density and consistency of sub soil on which
foundation will rest. Collection of disturbed and undisturbed samples from each borehole
at the salient depth would help us to develop the soil profile and predict the soil
parameters for allowable bearing capacity of soil.

Since the depth of boring should be not less than one and half (1.5) times the smaller
dimension of the structure (IS 1892-1979), it is recommended to split the tower portion
with the gallery and other basement portion.
*Detailed soil report shall be provided during draft phase.

5.4 SEISMIC CONSIDERATION

As per Indian Code IS 1983: 2002, Nepal lies in Zone 5with high to very high seismic
hazard.As per National Building Code of Nepal, Kathmandu valley lies in zone Z=1.
Historically,earthquakes in the M6.0-7.0 range have been experienced and at least two in
the M7.5-8.0 rangein 1833 and 1934 respectively. Hence, is susceptible to high seismic

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risk, which has been strictlyconsidered in structural designing. The structural designing
has been done in accordance with therecommendations and design criteria of Nepal
National Building Code NBC 105:1994: SeismicDesign in Building in Nepal. However,
IS Code has also been referred for the designing.

FIG : SEISMIC ZONING MAP (SOURCE : UNDP/UNCHS (HABITAT, 1994).

FIG: SEISMIC HAZARD MAP OF NEPAL (SOURCE: NEPAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTER,

LAINCHAUR, KATHMANDU)

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