Phase I, II, III Sub Surface Soil and Water Sampling

Our multi-disciplinary contracting group provides comprehensive environmental field services to Environmental Consultants and Engineers. Our Team achieves customer satisfaction and repeat business by providing superior services at consistent budgets, and by responding to our client’s needs first.

Turtle Clan has offices in Lexington KY, Eaton OH, and Tampa FL. We provide environmental field services to most of the eastern United States.

Our success is directly attributed to the commitment of our management, technical and field staff to uphold standards of quality and professionalism. It is this philosophy that has created a successful project history for Micah and created long-standing relations with consulting firms.

We maintain well drilling licenses and certifications throughout the eastern United States. We also carry extensive insurance coverage ($5M), which includes general liability, worker's compensation, automobile, and professional liability with contractor's pollution insurance. Copies of our licenses and certificates of insurance are available upon request.

Turtle Clan's focus on safety protects the public and our most important asset, our people. Turtle Clan employees are trained to recognize, avoid, and resolve potentially dangerous conditions. Our mission is to put safety first as we perform successfully for our Clients.

Excavation of Concrete and Soil

When you place your trust in Turtle Clan, you can count on technical expertise and innovative problem solving; all expertly applied to deliver quality results. By maintaining qualified staff and cutting edge equipment, our environmental field services are certain to reduce project budgets and increase overall success.

Project: U.S. Army Fort Jackson, SC
Approximate $ Amount: $67,000
Description: Removal/Closure of (48) Underground Storage Tanks, from various locations on Base, environmental assessments, soil sampling, and regulatory reporting.

Project: Illinois State Tollway Authority, Earthwork Contract
Approximate $ Amount: $2,100,000.00
Description: Performed numerous trenching excavations, excavation/disposal of contaminated soils, underground piping system installation, backfilling, utility relocation, and resurfacing concrete and asphalt for/at the Illinois State Tollway authority. Regulatory reporting was also required.

Project: Cherry Point, NC Navy-Marine Base
Approximate $ Amount: $80,000
Description: Performed closure of regulated and non-regulated fuel tanks for the US Department of the Navy.

Project: Virgie Soil/Groundwater Corrective Action - Virgie, KY
Approximate $ Amount: $320,000
Description: Provided over-excavation, pump & treatment of contaminated water, environmental assessments, remediation system installations and regulatory reporting activities for a private client in Virgie, KY.

Project: Georgia DOT- Multiple Contracts
Approximate $ Amount: $570,000
Description: Removal of Underground Storage Tanks, propane tank removal, environmental assessments, underground utility repair, concrete flatwork and asphalt, and the installation of bio-venting systems. Regulatory reporting was also provided.

Our mission as an environmental consultant/contractor is to work as a partner with the client, regulatory agencies and the public to address real or perceived problems in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

Environmental Excavations
Groundwater Well Installs
Subsurface Soil Evaluations
Landfill Closures/Caps
Vac Truck Services
Hydraulic Lift Removals
Drum Disposal/Over Packing
Remediation System Installation/Startup
Remediation System O&M
Environmental Sampling Services
Free-Product Recovery
Oil/Water Separator Installation & O&M
Surface Restoration
Retention Pond Clean Out

Our Team maintains a diverse team of environmental and construction professionals who are eager to advance within their professions and seek innovative, creative means of better serving their clients.

Professional Geologists
Construction Managers
Environmental Specialists
Geologists
Environmental Field Technicians
Heavy Equipment Operators
CDL Drivers
Geography Technicians

Training & Certification

Turtle Clan provides semi annual internal and external training courses to keep employees informed of industry changes and new technologies. Trade shows and conferences are regularly attended for staff to be well informed on new environmental contracting equipment and up to date with newest soil/ground sample collection instruments.

All environmental employees have received OSHA 40-Hour HAZWOPER certifications and current OSHA 8-Hour Refresher Training. First Aid, CPR and industry specific safety programs (LPS) are maintained annually.

Other certifications held by the Turtle Clan team include NGWA Monitoring Well Installer, Certified Drill Rig Operator, UST Remover Certifications, Reimbursement Programs Certifications, and EPA AHER A Certifications.

Provides comprehensive environmental field services to private and public-sector clients. We are able to achieve customer satisfaction and repeat business by providing reasonably priced superior services, and by responding to our client's needs first.

We provide quality and competitive services to compliment soil/groundwater investigative and remedial venues. We maintain state of the art direct push technology drill rigs to collect discrete and/or continuous soil samples, obtain soil vapor screenings, perform in bore groundwater sampling, monitoring well placement and remedial injections. Our rigs
provide both direct push and auger capabilities.

Our probe/drill units are also designed for off road remote areas and interior building access. Dual tube sampling is available to avoid potential cross contamination and increase overall field productivity.

The prode/drill units are operated by staff with extensive experiences in sub surface investigation and remedial services.  All staff members possess OSHA HAZWOPER, first aid, CPR, Loss Prevention Training and Groundwater Well Certifications are maintained. Project/Staff resumes, Standard Operating Procedures and Health Safety Plan are available upon request.

Our team maintains well drilling licenses and certifications throughout the eastern United States. We also carry extensive insurance coverage, which includes general liability, workers's compensation, automobile, and professional liability with contractor's pollution insurance. Copies of our licenses and certificates of insurance are available upon request.

Our focus on safety protects the public and our most important asset, our people. We train our people to recognize, avoid, and resolve potentially dangerous conditions. Our mission is to put safety first as we perform successfully for our clients.

When you place your trust in Turtle Clan, you can count on technical expertise and innovative problem solving; all expertly applied to deliver quality results. By maintaining qualified people and cutting edge equipment, our environmental field services are certain to reduce project budgets and increase overall success.

Services

Environmental Probing & Drilling Services

Environmental Probing and Drilling gives quality and competitive services to compliment soil & groundwater investigative venues. We maintain state of the art direct push technology drill rigs to collect discrete or continuous soil samples, obtain soil vapor screening, perform in bore groundwater sampling and monitoring well placement. Our rigs provide both direct push and auger capabilities.

Our probe/drill units are designed for off road remote areas and interior building access. Dual tube sampling is available to avoid potential cross contamination.We have flexible payment terms to accommodate your specific project needs and also to work with multiple state reimbursement programs. We provides competitive quotes region-wide with quality probe/drill units managed by quality staff. Our probe/drill units are operated by staff with extensive experience in subsurface investigation and remedial activities. OSHA HAZWOPER and First Aid certifications are maintained. Project/Staff resumes, Standard Operating Procedures and Health Safety Plan are available upon request.

Our team offers environmental field services that can provide turnkey evaluations, UST removals & upgrades, remediation system installations, waste services and staff field services. By maintaining both environmental contracting and drilling professionals in-house, project objectives are achieved within required budget and time constraints.

Soil Gas Sampling
Discrete Soil or Continuous
Groundwater Grab Sampling
Assessment Wells
Remedial Injections Large/Small Scale
Water Sediment Sampling
Utility Rock Sounding
Drum Disposal Soil/Groundwater
Grout Pumps

Groundwater Monitoring Well Installation, 2" & 4"
GW Monitoring Well Install, 2 & 4
Free Product Recovery Well Install, 2 & 4
Free Product Recovery Unit Install, Passive & Pneumatic
Dewatering Stinger Installation
Drum Disposal - Soil/Groundwater
Grout Pumps

Recognitions of Underground Utilities
Recognition of Buried Tanks
Recognition of Underground Anomalies
Solely or in Conjunction with Subsurface Investigations

Remediation System Installation
Remediation System Operation
Remediation System Maintenance
Remediation Excavation/Disposal
UST Removal
Oil/water Separator Closure
Hydraulic Lift Removal
Pump and Treatment Capabilities

Environmental Drilling

EPD mai ntains its subsidiary, Environmental Probing & Drilling, LLC (EPD) to support consultant's needs in soil and groundwater investigations.

Direct Push

The primary drilling service. Direct Push is the most efficient, effective, and technically accurate drilling method for many sites. One advantage of direct push technology is that soil samples can be collected at discrete depths via our Dual Tube System. This system allows cost effective sampling beneath perched water/saturated soils, sampling in collapsing soils and ensures that samples are not cross-contaminated by upper soil zones.

Discrete Soil or Continuous Core Sampling
Groundwater (GW) Sampling - via tooling
Soil Gas Sampling
Remedial Injections
Assessment Wells 1"
Marine Sediment Sampling
Pre-Pack GW Monitoring Well Installation 1" & 2"
Pre-Dredging Sediment Investigations
Utility Rock Sounding

Hollowstem Augering

Hollowstem auguring services enhance direct push capabilities and are offered for sites where direct push cannot solely complete the scope of work.

EPD staff routinely collects/log soil/groundwater samples on small, but remote projects, for our client. This saves the client valuable staff travel time and contributes to the overall profitability of the project. EPD can submit samples to client laboratory of choice and/or provide turnkey report to our client.

Water well certifications are held by EPD staff for a variety of states, ensuring compliance with environmental regulatory agencies during subsurface investigation activities. EPD maintains 40-hour HAZWOPER training for all staff, as well as First Aid/CPR and annual on-going education. EPD staff also possesses Loss Prevention System training recognized by multiple petroleum processing Corporations.

EPD provides $5,000,000 insurance coverage as a standard rate and can supplement this on an as needed project basis. Payment/Performance bonds are available to applicable projects.

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a valuable tool in identifying underground utilities, buried tanks and other subsurface anomalies. GPR emits an electromagnetic pulse into the ground that records echoes and builds an image from the echoes. Basically, GPS creates a picture of the subsurface.

Identify underground storage tanks
Locating pipes, conduits, or other buried utilities
Locate plastic pipe along with other non-metallic objects
Confirm As Built Drawings
Clear Site Plan for New Construction
Identify Sinkholes, Unmarked cemeteries and grave locations
Archaeological Studies

Ground Penetrating Radar can detect objects as deep as 30 to 40 feet. However, it is best suited for depth up to 15 feet below ground surface. Penetration depth is dependent on soil conditions and or surface conditions and the electrical conductivity of the soil. GPR can be used in variety of media including concrete, pavement, rock, soil, ice and fresh water. Link to Soil Suitability Map for GPR: Ground-Penetrating Radar Soil Suitability Maps | NRCS Soils

The advantage of GPR is that it is fast, reliable and is very safe. GPR does not use any radiation.

EPD can provide this service individually or in conjunction with Environmental Subsurface Investigation. Our ability to package both GPR survey and soil/groundwater sampling into one (1) mobilization provides timelier project completion and budget savings to you, our Client.

EPD is able to cost competitively service all areas of the United States lower 48 and in Canada/Mexico as well. We also offer service agreements with fixed pricing for repetitive scopes of work or for large property portfolios.

EPD continually strives to enhance our turnkey environmental site assessment field services. Our success is based on building long-term relations by proving consistent and cost effective results.

Truck AMS 9630 Pro-D - Powerful rig giving both on/off road capabilities with ea se of mobilization.

Skid Steer AMS 9630 - Capable of interior warehouse sampling, metal tracks ava ilable for off-road terrains, other attachments available for brush clearing, gravel placement, drum relocation & pallet stacking.

Track AMS VTR Capable of off-road terrains, steep locations (i.e. railroad tracks, hillsides, etc.) due to low design. Also great for tight fits in industrial environment and low radius turns.

Mini-Track AMS VTR Designed for interior door use for industrial setting, dry cle aners & auto service bays, while still powered to supplement on-site outside drilling.

Environmental Probing and Drilling is among the leaders in its field due to the wide range of projects and experience. Below we have compiled a short list of projects that EPD has completed.

Project: Baseline Survey, US Army Weapons Depot
Approximate $ Amount: $25,000
Description: Conducted dual-tube continuous-core direct push soil borings and hollowstem auger installation of two inch groundwater monitoring wells at an operating Army depot facility. Work was completed as a preliminary survey for a weapons incinerator facility.

Project: Soil/Groundwater Investigation, Private Client
Approximate $ Amount: $29,000
Description: Conducted site investigation field services, contaminant identification, contaminant characterization (vertical and horizontal extent), installation of bedrock groundwater monitoring wells and confirmation sampling.

Project: Pre-Remedial Survey, Private Client
Approximate $ Amount: $55,000
Description: Conducted dual-tube continuous-core direct push soil borings and discrete soil gas sampling as part of pre-remedial investigations.

Project: Abandoned Landfill, Private Client
Approximate $ Amount: $35,000
Description: Conducted remedial injections of ORC's for hydrocarbon remediation at an abandoned landfill in Chicago area. Over 250 injection points were installed to varying depths with over 30 days in direct push activities.

Project: Soil/Groundwater Evaluations, Private Client
Approximate $ Amount: $67,500
Description: Conducted dual-tube continuous-core direct push soil borings, groundwater sampling with a hydropunch retractable sampler and installation of pre-pack groundwater monitoring wells.

Project: Marine Sediment & Freshwater Sampling, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Chicago
Approximate $ Amount: $35,000

Drilling

Cone Penetration Testing Services

Turtle Clan offers a wide range of geotechnical and environmental cone penetration testing (CPT) and geophysical testing services. Turtle Clan's skilled and knowledgeable operators can retrieve data at a faster rate even in difficult conditions, allowing less time on the job and a lower cost to the client. Our highly trained staff can then provide you with the technical support necessary to accurately interpret the cone penetration data we provide and assist you in the design of your site investigation program. Our state-of-the-art cone trucks provide a climate controlled atmosphere and are equipped with computer monitors, printers, and decontamination sinks.

Piezocone Penetrometer
Seismic Cone Penetrometer
Electrical Resistivity Cone Penetrometer
In-situ hydrocarbon screening using ultraviolet optical screening tool (UVOST)
In-situ resistivity and hydraulic conductivity analyses
Seismic analysis (shear wave velocity determination for liquefaction studies)
SPT Energy Calibration
Portable systems available for over water or limited access
Soil Remediation (ORC or HRC Injection)
Membrane Interface Probe (MIP) with CPT

Offshore drilling using jack-up boats, barges or Gregg’s drill boat (the Quin Delta)
Sediment/soil sampling and continuous coring
Cone penetration testing (CPT) services
Offshore foundation and liquefaction studies
Vibracore
Deep & Shallow water capabilities

Groundwater extraction and monitoring wells
Vapor extraction, sparge and biovent wells
Nest wells, cluster wells, multipoint-sampling systems
Well development, purging, sampling and rehabilitation
Pump installation and repair

Applications
Underground Utility Location Verifications
Natural Gas Pipeline Bell Joint Leak Repair
Cathodic Protection Installation
Gas or Water Line Service Terminations or Installations
Manway and Valve Box Cleaning/Maintenance

Mud rotary and reverse circulation drilling
Hollow stem auger drilling
Air rotary drilling
Continuous coring
SPT energy calibration
Shelby tube sampling
Split spoon sampling using 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 diameter sample tubes
Inclinometer installation
Piezometer Installation

Well abandonment
Aquifer testing
Well/borehole video logging
Cathodic protection wells
Hydraulic fracturing

Soil sampling
Split spoon sampler
Continuous core sampling
Piston sampler
Vibration sampling
Soil gas/vapor sampling
Installation of soil gas sampling probes
In situ groundwater sample collection
Hydro-Punch groundwater sampling system
BAT groundwater sampling system
Slotted auger system

Soil, soil vapor, groundwater samples
Combination hollow stem auger/direct push drill rigs
Portable Ramset unit
Injection for Remediation
Hydraulic Profiling Tool (HPT) with electrical conductivity

Cone Penetration Testing
Pressure Meter Testing
Field Vane Shear Testing
Flat Dilatometer Testing
Rock Dilatometer Testing
Goodman Jack Testing
SPT Energy Measurements
Instrumentation Installation

Our team maintains a large inventory of state-of-the-art drilling, CPT, over water, direct push, air vacuum, and well development equipment to meet a wide range of environmental and geotechnical site investigation and remediation needs. Our full-time mechanics and preventative maintenance program ensure that all necessary equipment is available and operating at maximum efficiency. We also have ready access to an extensive vendor network allowing us to procure non-stock materials and equipment efficiently. This commitment to readiness and reliability means on schedule performance and lower project costs.

Learn more about our Environmental Services.

Contact us for additional information:

Phone: 914-361-9703
E-mail: info@turtleclan.com