Acid sulfate soil inspection and management report app
Earthworks below the water table on low-lying coastal land can disturb acid sulfate soils, and once exposed to air they generate sulfuric acid. Civil contractors working under an acid sulfate soil management plan need daily records of what was excavated, how much lime was applied to treatment pads, and the field and verification test results — evidence that is requested months later when a regulator or principal asks how the soil was handled.
Built for civil contractors running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample ASS management report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
ASS management report
Daily treatment pad record — Pad 2
- Project
- Estuary Drive drainage upgrade (fictional)
- Date
- 5 August 2026
- Material source
- Trench chainage 340–410
| Item | Value | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Volume placed on pad | 86 m³ | Result: Recorded |
| Field pH (pHF) / after peroxide (pHFOX) | 6.8 / 2.9 | Result: Treat |
| Ag lime applied | 2.4 t, incorporated in two passes | Result: Applied |
| Leachate pond pH | 7.2 | Result: In range |
| Verification sample | ASS-P2-014 sent to laboratory | Result: Pending |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the ASS management report where your template puts it.
Per excavation lot
- Chainage or area
- Depth and volume excavated
- Field pH and pH after peroxide
- Reaction strength
Per treatment pad
- Volume placed and layer thickness
- Lime rate and tonnes applied
- Leachate pond pH and discharge
- Verification sample ID
Daily
- Rainfall
- Bund and guard layer condition
- Photos of pads and stockpiles
Standards the report works to
- National Acid Sulfate Soils Guidance (2018)National acid sulfate soils guidance series, including the guidance on identification, sampling and laboratory methods
- The national framework the management plan’s testing and treatment are drawn from.
- QASSIT Technical ManualQueensland Acid Sulfate Soil Technical Manual — Soil Management Guidelines
- Treatment and verification practice for projects in Queensland.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the ASS management report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the acid sulfate soil inspection form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your sample locations
Enter sample locations once, as a register. Every one of your samples, bores and monitoring rounds then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The ASS management report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a ASS management report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The report says every bore was sampled to three metres; the form has BH07 refused at 1.2 m.
Checks a environmental framework usually carries
- Every exceedance in the results tables is discussed in the assessment text
- The guideline values cited match the land use actually being assessed
- No sample or bore ID appears in the prose that is absent from the data
- Data gaps, refusals and deviations from the sampling plan are stated as limitations
Questions
- Can lime tonnes be totalled across a week?
- Calculated fields can sum a column across a repeat, so lime applied per pad and per day rolls up into the period summary.
- Can each pad’s history be traced back to the trench it came from?
- Excavation lots and pads are separate repeats linked by reference, so a pad shows every lot placed on it and a lot shows where it went.
- Can supervisors fill this in on site without coverage?
- Yes. The daily form, photos and notes are captured offline and upload once the device is back in range.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other environmental work we cover
- Pest animal control programsControl program report
- Phase 1 site assessmentsESA report
- Phase 2 contamination samplingSampling analysis report
- Rehabilitation monitoringRehab progress report
- Riparian zone assessmentsRiverbank condition report
- Sediment samplingSediment quality report
- Soil sampling programsSoil test report
- Spill response documentationIncident spill report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your ASS management report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.