GES Wins EBJ Awards

01/09/2009

Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. (GES) recently received two achievement awards from the Environmental Business Journal: the bronze business achievement award for GES’ international growth in the Caribbean-Central America region and a technology merit award for innovative remediation.

Final awards were determined by a committee of EBJ staff and EBJ editorial advisory board members.

“These awards represent GES’ continued commitment to our core clients and maintaining a technological edge in our approach to subsurface investigation and remediation,” said President and COO Ed Van Woudenberg. “The talented staff behind these initiatives has been a key part of our achievements as a company and gives me great confidence for continued success in the future.”

BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENT: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
BRONZE MEDAL: Groundwater & Environmental Services (GES), a $100-million-plus privately held C&E firm, for a breakthrough year in the international petroleum market, with annual revenue growth of more than 240%. Gross revenue in this sector increased from $1.7 million in 2007 to $4.1 million in 2008. GES' international group has grown by more than 300% to service the downstream petroleum industry across the Caribbean, Mexico, and Latin America. In early 2008, GES received a five-year contract for the Latin American region valued at more than $30 million, positioning the company as a prime environmental vendor for the world's largest oil company in both the United States and the Caribbean-Central America region. GES has opened a regional office in San Juan, Puerto Rico to manage projects at locations in Mexico, Central America, and several Caribbean island nations. GES expects this strong base to support further growth throughout South America.

TECHNOLOGY MERIT: REMEDIATION
Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. (GES) and Columbia Technologies for developing an innovative assessment and feasibility testing service that accelerates and improves conceptual site model development and remediation strategy effectiveness. This method uses Columbia's direct-sensing tools to collect high-resolution, direct-sensing data for more accurate site characterization. Columbia's SmartData Solutions processes the data in near real time to create an interactive, on-line conceptual site model to support ongoing field efforts. This integrated approach provides three-dimensional color images depicting the location, depth, composition, and extent of contaminant plumes within hours. Using the results of this accelerated process and subsequent extraction/injection well development, GES mobilizes its data acquisition processing laboratory (DAPL) to the site to collect extensive feasibility test data and evaluate the comparative effectiveness of remediation technologies, including air sparging, soil vapor extraction, groundwater/product pumping, total-phase vacuum extraction, ozone injection, and chemical oxidation injection methods. Real-time evaluation and adjustment to testing conditions are enabled by on-board computer, a wide array of pumps, blowers, and other tools, and the use of wireless transducers.

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