Services - Environmental Surveying

OSHA 29CFR1910.120 Hazardous sites

In 1989, Murphy Geomatics sent four selected employees to school to obtain the training required to meet OSHA 29CFR1910.120 standards to work on identified toxic and hazardous sites. Upon completion, they were medically certified and began survey work on a SuperFund site in North Carolina. This site required Tyvek and respirator equipment. Since then, we have worked on numerous military bases, chemical plants, paint factories, pesticide disposal sites, and ordnance facilities. We provide coordinates for wells and sampling points, layout grids for sampling, perform topographic and hydrographic surveys, provide layout locations for new wells and samples.

Wetlands and Buffers

The EPA says the term wetlands means "those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas." We say sometimes that include cornfields and old growth forests. Wherever wetlands are identified, it is essential that they be properly located to allow designers to attempt to assuage their impact.