| DRILLING SERVICES
COMMERCIAL
1DC) Barge Drilling Capabilities: Ability to adapt drill rigs and barge size to meet your project's requirements and site conditions (creeks, rivers, lakes, shallow to deep water).
2DC) Bedrock Coring: Multiple methods (NQ, HQ), of obtaining bedrock core samples to great depths for varying typed of investigations to analyze bedrock characteristics.
3DC) Environmental Drilling: Ability to determine the existence of contamination in soil or groundwater, field screen samples for VOC's, delineate the extent of contamination plumes, and operate in environments requiring protection levels A,B,C and D. Full service environmental drilling and sampling capabilities.
4DC) Hand Auger Borings: Technique used in limited access sites, also used to create detailed soil descriptions and hydrology characteristics.
5DC) Hollow Stem Auger Capabilities 2 1/4" - 10 1/4": Are commonly used to set groundwater monitoring wells for environmental and geotechnical applications.
6DC) Low Clearance Drilling: Unique equipment allows for the capability of drilling in low clearance situations.
7DC) Monitoring and Recovery Well Installation: Monitoring well installation consists of installing any cased excavation or opening into the ground, with greater depth than width, for the purpose of determining the physical, chemical, biological, or radiological properties of groundwater. A recovery well installation consists of installing a large diameter well which is used to recover groundwater contaminates.
8DC) Off-Road Drilling Capabilities (ATV): Unique ATV equipment offer the ability to drill on sites that would otherwise be inaccessible.
9DC) Piezometer and Inclinometer Installation: A piezometer is any cased excavation which is used in determining the depth to the water table or potentiometric surface. An Inclonometer or clinometer is an instrument used to monitoring slope movement or slope failure.
10DC) Pressure Testing: Casing and bedrock pressure testing with multiple size packers.
11DC) Probe Sampling Capabilities: Drive samplers into the subsurface without rotary action associated with more conventional auger systems.
12DC) Professional Oversight: Qualified soil scientists or geologists available for oversight of drilling operations, well installations, soil classifications, and related projects to ensure that appropriate equipment, methods, and practices are used.
13DC) Professional Soil Profile and Bedrock Descriptions: A sequential record of the soil and geologic materials penetrated during the drilling of a borehole.
14DC) Pump Testing: To determine the sustained pumping capacity of a well, a pump test must be performed on the well. Pump tests are designed to establish the long term equilibrium rate at which water will flow towards and enter the well.
15DC) Shelby Tube and Piston Tube Sampling: A shelby tube is a thin gauged, single-piece metal tube which is forcefully driven onto the soil or sediment at the bottom of a borehole to collect an undisturbed sample. The piston sampler collects samples in difficult conditions, such as swelling clays, flowing sands and below groundwater.
16DC) Split Spoon Soil Sampling: A multi-piece sampler which is threaded onto the end of a drill rod or hand auger and forcefully driven into the soil or sediment at the bottom of a borehole to collect an undisturbed subsurface soil or sediment sample.
17DC) Registered NY State Well Drilling Company with Exam Certified Employees: Since January of 2000, NYS Environmental Conservation Law requires that "No person shall engage in the business of water well drilling in the state of New York without first obtaining a certificate of registration from the department." Registration is required where drilling activity includes "construction and reconstruction of water wells, the establishment or repair of a connection through the well casing and the repair of water wells including repairs which require the opening of a well casing".
18DC) Test Pits: Test pits are used to determine the level of the seasonal water table and/or depth of the impermeable substratum. Ability to provide operator, excavator as well as a soil scientist or geologist, for classifying test pits on-site.
19DC) Thin Wall Concrete Sampling: Allows for the testing, and classification of asphalt and concrete by obtaining core samples.
20DC) Vane Shear Testing: Vane shear testing is used in the determination of the un-drained shear strength of the soil.
21DC) Well Development: The process of agitating, surging and pumping a well to remove fine grained particulate sediment from the well and filter pack, stabilize the filter pack, and remedy any damage to the screened water-bearing formation resulting from drilling activities.
HOME-SITE
1DH) Engineers Report: Reports include a description of the parcel, the on-site soil capabilities, load capacity, bedrock characteristics, as well as foundation design recommendations based upon the findings.
2DH) Lab Testing: Include grain size analysis, Atterberg limits, expansion index, classification, compaction, density, hydraulic conductivity, moisture content, organic content and pH.
3DH) Soil Boring: Geologic engineering tests to determine the capability of the soil to support proposed improvements or to determine the strength and properties of a required building foundation. Expansive clay soil or rock outcroppings may affect the required foundation.
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1W) Ecological/Biological Evaluations: Provides information that can be used to support land management decisions and identify areas of local importance.
2W) Endangered Species Investigations: Investigation for the possible occurence of rare and threatened species. Determination of likelihood of impact by proposed actions. Surveys are in accordance with established protocols.
3W) Habitat Assessments: Analyze any tract of land with respect to plant and animal communities, wetlands, land-use history, and other natural resource related issues. These surveys are necessary for Environmental Assessment and/or Environmental Impact Statements.
4W) Land Equity Management: Design management plans to preserve and increase the value of the property.
5W) Post Mitigation-Construction Monitoring: Monitor during the construction of the mitigation area to ensure that the proper construction techniques and pollution prevention practices are kept in accordance with USACE and NYSDEC requirements set forth within the issued permits.
6W) Preliminary Wetland Investigation: Perform a brief review of published resource maps coupled with a site visit to identify location of possible wetlands and other environmental limitations.
7W) Section 404(b)(1) Analysis: Analysis of alternatives required for regulatory compliance (NEPA). Identify least environmentally damaging practicle alternative.
8W) State and Federal Wetland Permitting: Gather, organize and submit information necessary for permit issuance. Correspond with respective agencies as they pertain to the project and permit issuance.
9W) Stream Monitoring: Assess water quality using established protocols and indices (macroinvertebrate, RAPID bioassessments, HGM, etc.).
10W) Tree Survey: Inventory and rating of trees, wood lots and forests based on direct contour random sampling and performed in accordance with established protocols, ordinances and regulations.
11W) Vegetation and Wildlife Inventory: Perform field survey and report documenting ecological communities and flora and fauna inventories.
12W) Wetland Delineation: Investigations to identify possible wetland occurrences designating wetland boundaries in accordance with federal criteria.
13W) Wetland Functional Assessment: Evaluate, qualitative or quantitative level at which a wetland performs and functions. Predict potential affects of proposed project and the level of compensatory mitigation required.
14W) Wetland Mitigation & Remediation Planning and Design: Identify areas suitable for wetland creation. Design mitigation area to obtain correct hydrology to support hydrophytic vegetation, and satisfy the requirements for compensatory mitigation.
15W) Wetland Mitigation Monitoring and Management: Monitoring to ensure regulatory compliance set forth within an issued permit, through documentation of target success criteria (generally vegetative diversity). Compliance is maintained through the physical management of desirable and undesirable vegetative species and yearly reports that are submitted to the respective agencies.
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