Stuart’s interest in ground water dates back to his teenage years when, while pulling and setting pumps for his father’s rural Ohio plumbing business, he literally had the black and brown products of well microorganisms on his hands.  Later, that experience led to his pioneering work in the application of biofouling methods in ground water system analysis. He also listened to the water cascading in the rock wells of his home country and wondered about the flow of water underground.

Today, Stuart is one the nation’s foremost experts on the diagnosis and treatment of well problems and performance deterioration.  He is a Certified Ground Water Professional by the National Ground Water Association, a Registered Geologist with the State of Kentucky, and has been consulting in the ground water field since 1983.  In addition to his consulting career, he has also worked for the National Water Well Association (now NGWA), developed the curriculum and instructed ground water science and technology at Wright State University (where he developed portions of the WSU IRIS distance-learning hydrogeology training program), and taught biology courses and advised hydrogeological engineering projects at Ohio Northern University.  He has spoken on well maintenance, rehabilitation, and microbiology topics in Argentina, Australia, England, and throughout North America.  In recent years, he has become active in the effort to equip professional water sector capabilities and to develop water supplies in Tanzania and other developing countries.

Allen has been involved in water supply hydrogeology and exploration since 1979.  During this time, he has earned a reputation as an extremely knowledgeable and dedicated scientist who is committed above all else to accuracy and honesty.

Allen’s extensive career in water supply hydrogeology includes 10 years with the North Dakota State Water Commission, where he logged 50,000 ft of borehole per year while conducting community and county water resource exploration and delineation and wetlands water budgets.  He is proud to have been a critical part of the exploration and mapping of North Dakota’s vast network of hidden lakes aquifer systems.  Prior to joining Ground Water Science in 1996, he worked with Earth Data and LBG Inc. on wellhead protection and contaminant delineation projects throughout Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and New England.

With 60+ years of combined experience, our managing principles have been extensively published.  Below is a list of some of the most relevant examples.