Horizontal Drilling Techniques Offer Significant Advantages When Delineating Contamination Horizontal drilling techniques offer significant advantages when delineating contamination, particularly on environmental projects where contamination exists in limited-access locations. Several tools can be applied to horizontal technologies to ensure the contamination…
By Tomas Will, Sr. Environmental Scientist When a consultant’s client reached out to them for help with an imminent property transaction worth several hundred million dollars, the consultant was placed on a short clock to help resolve lingering concerns related…
Horizontal soil sampling has been conducted by Directional Technologies, Inc. for over 20 years. The first horizontal soil sampling project was the successful collection of 8 soil samples beneath sensitive infrastructure in 1996. The company’s experience in horizontal soil sampling includes…
The Challenge Presented: An environmental consultant engaged Directional Technologies, Inc. (DTI) to collect a series of discrete, soil samples beneath an electroplating shop using the firm’s horizontal drilling technology. The samples were to be analyzed by an environmental laboratory in…
The Issue The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) mandated groundwater and soil sampling under an active pharmaceutical company manufacturing building in order to address vapor intrusion inside the building. Installation of vertical borings and vertical wells through the…