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HYDROGEOLOGY
Hydrogeology is the study of how water moves
Like Albert Einstein said, “If you can’t explain it to a
through the earth below us. Some even consider
six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
hydrogeology to be the black magic of the scientific world. There are plenty of reasons for this.
The other thing that really makes the GEMS hydro-
The scale of what we do ranges from micro, soil-
geology team stand out is our level of service and
pore-sized milligrams per litre to macro, water-
our speed. If you’re a leveraged developer, bringing
sheds and mountain ranges.
land to market, time is everything. The last thing
that you need is a scientist who doesn’t answer
We interpret and extrapolate the geology of city
your phone calls or email questions.
blocks based on the information that we collect from
6” round holes in the ground, predicting how much
GEMS understands these urgent needs and moreover,
water will flow into an excavation by measuring how
our commitment to a four-hour turnaround on commu-
long it takes for groundwater to flow into a pipe.
nications means we always answer your queries in a
timely and professional manner that our clients value.
GEMS hydrogeologists’ superpowers are explaining complicated 3-dimensional systems with a lot of
uncertainty in a straightforward, plain language way
that everyone can understand.
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