Applications
ENVIRONMENTAL
GEOPHYSICS environmental and engineering problems fall into the following classes or types: Groundwater (exploration and contaminant mapping). Urban (utility mapping, underground storage tank location). Civil Engineering / Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
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Environmental
- buried storage tanks
- agricultural and soil parameters
- analysis of root zone soil properties
- artificial radioisotopes searching
- Buried waste hazards
- Contamination Screening Evaluation Reports for Transportation Projects
- Delineate landfill and trench boundaries
- delineate landfills and pathways for contaminant flow
- determination of water and fertilizer demand
- Environmental Site Assessments
- examining the subsurface for environmental hazards such as soil contamination, underground storage tanks (UST) and drums
- Identify small ferrous and non-ferrous metallic objects such as unexploded ordnance (UXO)
- Sink holes and/or solution cavities
- Locate buried metallic objects (drums, tanks, etc)
- Locate underground storage tanks/contamination
- location and analysis of septic waste fields
- location and identification of coal ash contamination
- Location of Abandoned Oil Wells Seismic Refraction Surveys
- Location of Buried Wastes and Excavations
- Location of Subsurface Pipelines Location of Buried Wastes (Landfill Boundaries)
- Map leachate plumes
- Map soil and groundwater contaminants
- Map soil salinity and salt water intrusion
- Mapping of Subsurface Contaminants Gravity and Micro-Gravity Surveys
- monitoring of levees, dykes, lagoons and landfills for leaks
- need for carrying out non-destructive testing
- monitoring
- conduct hydrogeologic investigations such as water table mapping.
- Perform materials analysis
- polluted area
- radiation environmental monitoring
- Soil corrosivity
- Unexploded ordnance in soil
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