Membrane Interface Probing and Hydraulic Profiling (MIP/HPT):

MIP is a real-time detection and delineation of volatile organic compounds in the subsurface soil and the groundwater using Direct Push® Technology. SER90, Inc. provided numerous major clients and nationwide consultants with quality MIP services. We have two fully equipped MIP rigs for projects with tough access and during inclement weather conditions. Rain or Shine, our MIP team provided quality data to our clients, which provided their projects with time and monetary savings by quickly delineating the subsurface plume.

 

Our MIP team is well-trained and dedicated to provide your project managers and engineers with quality and repeatable MIP data as follows:

• Our team is supported with two fully equipped MIP rigs: Fully equipped Van and an ATV-mounted systems. Our systems are winterized and managed to produce quality data in freezing rain and sleet conditions. However, we prefer to work in Spring and Summer time.
• Our systems are equipped with Laboratory-grade courier gas (Nitrogen) to avoid cross-contamination and field down-time. Our rigs are equipped with stand-alone purge station to clean our Trunklines and maintain high productivity.
• All of our Standard Tests are done using laboratory-prepared and pre-measured standards to avoid personnel errors.
• We have added a new service to enable our clients connect with their field data via video conferencing to view the data in real-time.
• Our MIP data is always at 90 to 95% agreement with confirmation sampling conducted by our clients.
• We provide our clients with GPS fixes for all MIP points using sub-decimeter corrected GPS data.
• We provided major clients with 3-D mapping of the subsurface plumes using geo-referenced aerials and maps.

 

Is MIP applicable to your project, please call us to discuss it.

SER90, Inc. added hydraulic Profiling services to its MIP rigs to provide your project managers and engineers with the following:

• Continuous vertical profiling of hydraulic conductivity, the K value.
• This K value can be used to supplement the electrical conductivity (EC) profile from the MIP dataset to avoid misleading EC near landfill leachate, of high electrolytes in the groundwater that tends to mask clay lenses.
• HPT data can assist the project engineer in determining the water table(s) elevation(s) in conjunction with temperature and EC data from the MIP dataset.