Knowing what lies beneath the surface, precisely, is the first step toward sound environmental decisions.

That's why investigating means more than collecting samples. It means building a technically sound model of what's happening underground, identifying potential and actual sources of contamination, understanding transport mechanisms, and determining how contaminants are distributed in soil, groundwater, and, where relevant, soil vapor.

From Suspicion to Understanding the Liability

The Preliminary Assessment reconstructs the site's environmental history from documents, records, interviews, production processes, and field inspection. Confirmatory Investigation uses field data and analytical results to verify the presence or absence of chemicals of concern. Once contamination is confirmed, Detailed Investigation deepens the characterization, aiming to understand its distribution three-dimensionally and its relationship to local geological and hydrogeological conditions.

Building on that dataset, the Human Health Risk Assessment checks whether the identified exposure scenarios pose a risk to the receptors evaluated, and provides the basis for defining intervention measures.

High Resolution for Complex Scenarios

When conventional approaches don't provide enough data density, High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) techniques can generate continuous, high-density data along the profile investigated. This strategy refines understanding of the subsurface, targets points of interest, and reduces uncertainty in characterization.

Data That Drives Decisions

Soil and groundwater sampling, vapor assessment, geological and hydrogeological characterization, and high-resolution tools can be combined depending on the questions a project needs to answer. There's no one-size-fits-all strategy: an investigation needs to produce information with the quality and resolution the decision ahead requires.

With more than two decades in the field, a multidisciplinary team, an in-house laboratory, and specialized technologies, Geoambiente® follows a liability from initial identification through to defining intervention and monitoring strategies.