Some of the negative consequences of unqualified professionals practicing soil science include:

· Detrimental repair costs to homeowners

· Contaminated water and dead vegetation as a result of a failure to identify acid-sulfate soil

· Shrink-swells that cause cracked foundations, falling roadways, retaining walls

· Failure to identify suitable soils for their capacity of taking on and treating septic effluent from residential homes and commercial/industrial facilities

· Inability to protect onsite and offsite environmental resources from erosion of sediment and sediment laden waters due to failing erosion and sediment control measures and stormwater features