Straddle Packer Testing
Earth Data Northeast offers turn-key packer testing services featuring an extensive inventory of packers, data logging instrumentation and sampling pumps.
Packer testing, interpretation and reporting are performed by experienced geoscientists.
Systems can be configured for short-term testing or permanent installations.
Applications
What packer testing is used for.
- Determine the vertical extent of groundwater contamination
- Determine vertical head distribution and flow potential in an open borehole
- Conduct pumping/injection/slug testing in isolated fractures or screened intervals
- Determine fracture permeability
- Restore impacted public supply wells
- Inject in situ treatment fluids
- Determine pressure response of individual fractures in adjacent monitoring wells
- Detect casing leaks
Proof
39 documented sites where this service was used.
A sample below — the full list, with the prime contractor named on each, is on the projects page.
Salford Quarry Superfund Site
Harleysville, PA · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Cidra Groundwater Contamination Superfund Site
Cidra, PR · CDM
Avtex Fibers Inc. Superfund Site
Front Royal, VA · ERM
Crosley Farm Superfund Site
Berks County, PA · CDM
Chem-Fab Superfund Site
Doylestown, PA · HGL, AECOM, Wood
Former Ft McClellan Site
Anniston, AL · Geosyntec
Precision Plating Superfund Site
Vernon, CT · AECOM, TRC
Ft Detrick Area B Groundwater
MD · ERM
Raymark Superfund Site
Montgomery County, PA · HGL
Federal Creosote Superfund Site
Mansville, NJ · CDM
Spectron, Inc. Superfund Site
Cecil County, MD · ERM, OBG
Kellogg-Deering Wellfield
Norwalk, CT · GZA
Next step
Tell us about the borehole.
Depth, casing, formation, what you are chasing and when you need to be in the field. A geoscientist will come back to you — not a form response.
Whiteland Technology Center
924 Springdale Drive, Exton, PA 19341
Field services are scheduled directly with the office. Logging and video surveys are conducted 24/7 in response to customer need.