Applus RTD Drilling Job to Help Future Subsurface Research
New Water Wells Drilled at State University of New York
Applus RTD / Quality Inspection Services Inc. was recently contracted by the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Amherst Campus to complete a field investigation to supplement the existing on-site groundwater monitoring system (GMS). It is used to study groundwater tracing and various potential remedial measures in fractured bedrock, located beneath the campus and locally in Western New York.
Applus RTD / QIS mobilized two ATV drill rigs for the project. The three new wells were advanced through overburden soils, which were deposited during the last glacial event, and consist of lacustrine (lake-laid) silts and clays, overlying limestone and shale bedrock from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian time periods, dating back 350 to 430 million years ago.