• Conduct groundwater monitoring for water impoundments on natural gas drilling sites.
- Conduct low flow sampling using small pumps and HORIBA units on monitoring wells located around water impoundments. This is done to ensure that contained water is not entering groundwater aquifers located under the impoundments.
• Preform leak detection on water impoundment liners.
• Complete property inventories for mining permits.
- Sample water sources including water wells, springs, ponds, etc. for specific parameters required by the PADEP for mining permits.
- Take photos, GPS coordinates and complete field sheets based on the property survey, number of water sources and number of structures located on the property.
- Prepare samples for laboratory analysis. Enter all field notes and results into databases which can be used by clients for the permitting process.
• Oversee stream remediation and restoration projects.
- Make certain that excavating companies follow environmental standards while operating in streams that have lost flow because of subsidence due to coal mining.
- Determine areas of excavation and how many bores must be drilled into stream beds along with their spacing patterns and GPS coordinates.
- Report the results of the remediation projects to coal mine supervisors and the PA DEP
• Oversee the removal of contaminated soils on well pad sites.
- Determine and outline potentially contaminated areas
- Screen soils for clean readings, sample, and mark with a GPS unit to accurately show where contaminants have been removed from
• Monitor stream flows for coal mining projects using a Marsh-McBirney device
• Upload data into ERIMS: Environmental Management Information System
• Work on a variety of projects including:
- Water quality sampling, soil quality sampling, inventories, data entry and analysis, groundwater and surface water monitoring, geologic logging, well installation supervision, aquifer testing, and stream geology mapping.