Technical services
BGS groundwater-related technical services include:
- hydrogeological field services
- groundwater survey and sampling
- laboratory services
- groundwater modelling
- groundwater consultancy and project management
Hydrogeological field services
The BGS provides a comprehensive suite of hydrogeological field services including:
- borehole drilling (design and supervision)
- borehole testing and interpretation
- core logging
- downhole geophysical logging and borehole imaging and interpretation
- packer testing
- pumping test design, supervision
- slug tests
- tracer tests (a range of standard and novel tracer technologies) and interpretation
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Groundwater survey and sampling
BGS staff have extensive experience of designing and undertaking field surveys and sampling campaigns in the UK and internationally.
Services include:
- water sampling
- in-situ gas sampling
- sampling for groundwater ecology
- sampling for aquifer properties analysis (matrix and fracture characterisation)
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Laboratory services
The BGS has a range of state-of-the-art analytical facilities that can be used to provide high quality data for groundwater-related studies. These include:
- groundwater chemistry laboratory
- environmental tracers and dating laboratories
- aquifer physical properties laboratories
- groundwater ecology laboratory
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Groundwater modelling
BGS staff have extensive experience of applied groundwater modelling. The BGS has a suite of in-house groundwater modelling tools (ZOOM), as well as a wide range of commercial and academic codes that can be applied to problems as diverse as resource estimate, borehole performance, modelling of groundwater flooding and contaminant transport.
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Contact Dr Andrew Hughes for further information
Groundwater consultancy and project management
BGS staff undertake groundwater-related consultancy for a wide range of customers both in the UK and internationally. We have worked with government departments, regulatory agencies, industry and academia, and have a strong track record in the management of environmental research programmes.
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