For more than 20 years, Ground Water Science has been the region’s leading provider of hydrogeologic and ground water system solutions, combining advanced academic credentials with real-world experience to solve complex challenges faced by corporations, public agencies, municipalities, and others. Through our hands-on management and strict adherence to the highest standards of integrity, we integrate people, science, tools, and processes to most effectively support our clients toward the delivery of safe and reliable water supplies.

Unique among ground water service firms, Ground Water Science offers forensic analysis and troubleshooting for microbiological well contamination, and biofouling and biocorrosion problems within ground water and drain systems. We have the capacity to analyze and interpret microbiological, chemical, corrosion, and mineralogical parameters using a variety of methods. We supply these services to major full-service laboratories and on a consulting basis. We can conduct many of them in the field - even in remote and difficult locations.

Because Ground Water Science is a small firm, our clients work directly with the managing principals, each of whom bring 30+ years experience in a broad range of hydrogeologic settings and project conditions and have extensive knowledge of aquifer-scale hydrogeology, well hydraulics, well and wellfield design, equipment, ground water quality, and hydrogeochemistry. We are certified (CGWP and CPG) and licensed (PA, IN, KY, reciprocating ASBOG states, and federal projects). And our team includes a leading ground water microbiologist with local, national, and international experience in problems of well and ground water system performance and ground-water quality decline.

Our extensive inventory of equipment and technology includes a geographical information system (GIS) that is considered to be among the best for hydrogeological purposes in Ohio. More importantly, our skill and experience in using these assets allow us to perform vital services that lead to critical solutions for our clients. These services include:

• Aquifer testing and analysis.
• Siting new production wells and site characterization.
• Supervising well construction (test, production, and observation wells).
• New public water supply well support (OEPA and beyond Ohio).
• High-quality well and pump performance testing (1 to 2000 gpm).
• On-site testing of basic chemical-physical parameters and of biofouling and biocorrosion indicators. (We also provide additional onsite analyses and sampling for off-site analysis as needed.)
• Hydrologic modeling (both semi-analytical and numerical) including complex fracture-flow, quasi-porous media fracture flow, layered unconsolidated, and glacial-alluvial in bedrock settings.
• Analysis and graphical display of results from pumping tests (and others) in various hydrogeologic settings, including step tests, constant-rate tests, and slug tests for single and multiple wells, and biological and chemical data.
• GIS profiling and three-dimensional log and profiling with the capacity to import, manipulate, manage, and display a wide range of information in a spatial context, including accurate projection of hydrologic and geologic features on surficial feature maps and photographs, and development of cross-sections, head maps, and fence diagrams.
• Analysis of biofouling microbiological parameters by microscopy and culturing and biochemical methods.
• Providing chemical (including significant onsite), corrosion, and mineralogical analysis, and detailed predictions and analyses.

MOST of ALL: We bring our love of ground water science and commitment to service to your job.

To schedule a consulting arrangement, please contact: Stuart Smith , Managing Principal, 372 W. Wyandot Ave. · Upper Sandusky, OH 43351 · 1.419.209.0298.

Corporate, Agency, and Major Municipal Clients
Corporate clients and partners: Floyd Browne Associates, Fanning/Howey Associates, Kalsec Inc. (Kalamazoo, MI), Tonka Equipment Company, Philip Services Corporation, GEO Consultants LLC, Greeley and Hansen Engineers, Yale Law Practice LP, National Ground Water Association, Earth Tech.

Agency clients (often as a subcontractor): Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ohio Department of Transportation, AWWA Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati, University of Toledo.

Selected municipal clients: City of Oxford, City of Hamilton, Muscatine Power and Light, Tate-Monroe Water Association, Village of Coldwater (Ohio), Mercer County (Ohio), Elkhart Public Utilities, Metropolitan Domestic Water Improvement District (Tucson), City of Richmond, MI.

Sectors assisted: Public and industrial water supply, water supply for ethanol plant siting, environmental analysis of ethanol plant effects, critique of mega-dairy siting.