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    • Village of Ada - First fully endorsed wellhead protection plan in northwest Ohio
    • Spencerville, Ohio – Source water delineation and testing and modeling for strategic water planning.
    • Village of Convoy, Ohio – Capacity testing, WHPA endorsed, SWPP submitted
    • Village of Coldwater - Detailed delineation & optimization of wellfield (as adjunct to maintenance)
    • City of Oxford - Detailed alluvial valley WHPA delineation and management planning.
    • Village of Willshire - New well siting (replacing quarry water source) and wellhead protection.
    • City of Hamilton, Ohio - Well and wellfield capacity testing and modeling support
    • Muscatine, Iowa, Power and Light – Conducting test drilling to confirm & characterize contamination
    • Kalsec Inc., Kalamazoo, MI – Conducting test drilling to quantify aquifer capacity
    • Village of Carey, Ohio - Source water protection planning, wellfield resource optimization
    • Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 – Overcoming coliform positive problems
    • City of Elkhart, IN - With Greeley-Hansen Engineers: Analysis of biofouling problems
    • Metro Domestic Water Improvement District, Tucson, AZ - Develop solutions to poor well performance
    • Mercer Cty Water & Sewer, Celina, OH - Aquifer testing to prove capacity and determine expansion
    • City of Richmond, MI - Supervise and document attempted well rehabilitation and new construction.
    • Tate-Monroe Water Association, Bethel, Ohio - Wellfield biofouling
    • U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Ecological Research and Investigations Group, Denver, CO.
    • ARCC Inc., Daytona Beach, FL for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Develop tech publ on mitigation
    • GEO Consultants LLC, for major energy fuel facility, KY - Conduct biofouling & biocorrosion analysis
    • National Ground Water Well Association, Westerville, OH - Wide range of projects
    • Earth Tech, Hudson River Valley, NY – Review clogging potential, develop O&M plans for new wellfield
    • Yale Law Practice and CRAEPI - Siting of a large dairy farm
    • Village of New Washington, OH & McGhee Technical Water Services Inc. – Aquifer exploration
    • Village of Danville, OH - Develop a new wellfield
    • C.C.A. Ltd, Carenage, Canouan, St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Analysis of biofouling & corrosion
    • University of Cincinnati Genome Research Institute, Cincinnati, OH - Biofouling testing and rehab
    • Agricultural client, western Ohio – Diagnose poor performance in watering system
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