Technical services

BGS offers a number of hydrogeological field services, including:

• borehole drilling (design and supervision)
• borehole imaging and interpretation
• borehole testing and interpretation
• core logging
• downhole geophysical logging
• packer testing
• pumping test design and supervision
• slug tests
• tracer tests (a range of standard and novel tracer technologies) and interpretation

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)

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

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.

Contact

Please contact Dr Andrew Hughes for further information.

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.