Groundwater exploration doesn’t have to be tedious or expensive.

Blindly drilling hole after hole as a means of finding underground water is an, inefficient, outdated process. We can help you see what’s below the surface before you drill a single costly hole.

Not sure how to find groundwater without drilling?

Most companies think they have to drill first to find the groundwater they’re looking for. This outdated system is not only expensive—it’s risky.

Benefits Of Electric Resistivity Imaging For Groundwater Exploration

• Save time. Identify the most appropriate place to drill rather than randomly selecting a drill site.

• Save money. Both labor and equipment for finding groundwater are expensive. Electric resistivity imaging systems can pay for themselves, because the tools are reusable in myriad situations.

• Reduce your risk. Identify dry holes before you drill them. If your location has water beneath the surface and you contaminate the water or create a vulnerability by drilling before you know what’s going on, you could put your company and the environment at risk. Resistivity imaging helps to prevent this by leading you understand what’s going on.

Detection Use Cases

For two decades, our team of geophysicists has become the trusted partner for companies across the world in their underground water detection projects. Here are are few of groundwater exploration case histories:

• Locating water wells in South Sudan: Resistivity imaging with our SuperSting system successfully located a very high-production, potable water well with a 4,000-liter-per-hour static yield in the South Sudan region.

• Finding potable groundwater in Kenya: Our SuperSting system successfully helped identify water well targets that were safe to drink and located a known contaminated surficial aquifer.

• Identifying water wells in Texas: Resistivity imaging successfully located a relatively high-production water well producing approximately 125 gallons per minute. Typically, a groundwater exploration in this region done without resistivity imaging yields only a 10-gallons-per-minute well.

Other Uses Beyond Groundwater

• Subsurface site characterization (2D and 3D imaging, tomography and ERT).

• Cave, void, and sinkhole location.

• Depth-to-bedrock determination.

• Landslide hazard mapping.

• Marine 2D and 3D surveys.

• Lithology mapping.

• Mineral exploration.

• Archaeological site investigation.

• Detection of free products of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs).

• Monitoring remediation processes such as ammonia injection, desiccation, vitrification, steam injection, pumping, and air-sparging.

• Monitoring subsurface processes such as pump tests, CO2 injection, groundwater recharge, infiltration, saltwater intrusion, tunneling, dam leakage, and mining operations.