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Revised Characterization Plan Accelerates Petroleum Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment

March 31st, 2011

Article originally featured in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) CLU-IN Technology News and Trends March 2011 Issue

COLUMBIA Technologies' Membrane Interface Probe (MIP) Team

MIP deployment for plume delineation near the former Fannon Petroleum Services site could be completed at each location in less than one hour, with little disruption to ongoing activities.

Most recently, the March 2011 issue of Technology and Trends highlighted a project where COLUMBIA Technologies worked closely with the property owner, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ), and the City to address the site’s environmental and economic issues.

Efforts to better delineate contamination and accelerate remediation of the former Fannon Petroleum Services site in Alexandria, VA, were initiated in the early 2000s as part of a plan to redevelop the site for residential use.

For this project, the VA DEQ initiated the Triad approach including the development of a conceptual site model and consensus on specific investigative methods and tools, with a focus on using: Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: CLU-IN, COLUMBIA Technologies, Contaminated Site Clean-up Information, Direct Sensing, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Membrane Interface Probe, MIP, Petroleum Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment, Technology and Trends, Triad Approach, VA DEQ, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
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Vertical Profiling: A Comprehensive and Holistic Approach to Site Characterization

January 13th, 2011

From assessing hundreds of subsurface pollution investigations for our diverse client base, we’ve come to the conclusion that in order to conduct an effective site characterization and move forward with remediation design plans, one must have a comprehensive knowledge of their sites’ vertical profile. We define a complete vertical profiling project by understanding the hydro-stratigraphy in addition to the contaminant distribution in order to make cost-effective and practical remediation designs and environmental decisions. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Direct Sensing, High Resolution Vertical Profiling, Laser Induced Fluorescence, Membrane Interface Probe, Site Characterization, Vertical Profiling
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High Resolution Vertical Profiling

June 29th, 2010

COLUMBIA Technologies is always striving to provide the tools and the best practices available. Our High Resolution Vertical Profiling toolbox, a combination of our leading services provided throughout North America and Hawaii includes: Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: High Resolution Vertical Profiling, Hydraulic Profiling Tool, Laser Induced Fluorescence, Membrane Interface Probe, Mobile Labs, SmartData Solutions®, Soil Electric Conductivity
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TCE Contamination Logged Using MIP with SmartData Solutions®

September 21st, 2009

Article originally featured in the Probing Times, the official newsletter of Geoprobe Systems^® Fall 2009 Issue

Article featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Probing Times, the official newsletter of Geoprobe Systems®.

A warehousing facility for an equipment manufacturer had undergone several rounds of investigation and remediation to determine the extent of TCE contamination. The distribution of TCE on this several acre site in Los Angeles County, CA, was strongly controlled by thin-layer geology. And after more than a decade of investigating, the extent of the contamination was still not fully understood.

Long before the fieldwork began, Columbia Technologies, based in Baltimore, MD, worked closely with GeoTrans in Irvine, CA, the site consultant, to develop a scope of work that would allow Columbia Technologies to characterize the vertical distribution of TCE across the site in just a few days of fieldwork using the Membrane Interface Probe (MIP). Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: COLUMBIA Technologies, Electron Capture Detector (ECD), Geoprobe Systems®, GeoTrans, Membrane Interface Probe, Millennium Environmental, MIP, Photoionization Detector (PID), SmartData Solutions®, TCE, TCE Contamination, Trichloroethylene
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Headquarters hires new Midwest Regional Manager

February 23rd, 2009

Amy Heckhaus has been hired as the new Midwest Regional Manager. Amy brings to COLUMBIA 9 years of field and office experience in Membrane Interface Probe procedures, data analysis and direct push technology (Geoprobe) collection of soil, water and soil gas. She earned a BS in Geography and Environmental Systems from University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Tags: Amy Heckhaus, COLUMBIA Technologies, Membrane Interface Probe
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