Article originally featured in the Probing Times, the official newsletter of Geoprobe Systems^® Spring 2008 Issue

Article featured in the Spring 2008 issue of the Probing Times, the official newsletter of Geoprobe Systems®.

The discovery of dry cleaning solvents in soil and groundwater beneath the laundry room of the Peabody Orlando Hotel in Orlando, FL, led the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to request a site assessment to identify the extent of soil and groundwater impacts from perchloroethylene (PCE) and any of its degradation products. The hotel owners contacted environmental consultant, Ensafe from Memphis, TN, to help them respond.

Ensafe turned to Columbia Technologies in Baltimore, MD, to develop, process, and present the bulk of the site assessment data using the MIP system. Columbia’s task was to delineate the presence or absence of VOCs in soil and groundwater at the site, and collect representative samples of the subsurface…all in a single visit.

The exact scope of the project was dynamic based on interpretation of real-time data.

The field team, working both inside and outside the hotel, included Doug McInnes, Columbia’s MIP Manager, and Robert Stewart, Columbia’s Geoprobe^® Operator, who team with Ben Brantley, Ensafe’s Project Manager. They customized a site-specific work plan for the project suing Geoprbe direct push technology and the MIP system. By using the MIP and SmartData Solutions^®, a rapid 3-D visualization and information delivery system, the field team was able to optimize specific results from the site in real time. The results were posted on a secure website daily, incorporating all relevant data into high definition 3-D images of the subsurface. This enable the Project Manager, who was onsite, and other members of the Ensafe team, located elsewhere, to decide with confidence where to next obtain MIP logs and where to install monitoring wells.

Columbia Technologies is recognized as an MIP Service Specialist, and has completed MIP training at the Geoprobe^® corporate facilities and adheres to MIP Standard Operating Procedures.

Read the full article by viewing the Spring 2008 issue of the Probing Times, the official newsletter of Geoprobe Systems^®.