EBJ Business Achiever of the Week: Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc.

This week we tip our hats to Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. (GES; Neptune, NJ), winner of a 2012 Business Achievement Award in the remediation technology category for deployment of real-time remote monitoring systems to observe and analyze data on groundwater, surface water, and air emissions at project sites. In 2012 GES successfully used remote monitoring and data trend analyses on a variety of projects. On one project, GES collected data to understand natural methane fluctuations in groundwater and well headspace, demonstrating how those data correlate to other parameters such as weather changes and water well pumping. GES also recently implemented real-time monitoring on a project that utilizes solar-powered weather stations installed at unconventional gas well drilling sites. The real-time data is being used to notify staff, via e-mail alarm notifications, of potentially unsafe conditions (e.g., high winds). Rainfall data (programmed with daily and hourly rainfall alarms) is used to initiate erosion and sediment control enhancements and inspections. All data can be viewed remotely by computer or smartphone.For a full list of EBJ’s 2012 Business Achievement Award winners, please visit https://ebionline.org/2012-ebj-business-achievement-awards. EBJ will begin accepting nominations for 2013 Business Achievement Awards in October.