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Consulting Services
For more than 25 years, Ground Water Science has been the region’s trusted, flexible and innovative provider of hydrogeologic and ground water system solutions. At water industry meetings, if someone else speaks on a ground water topic, they turn to us to see what we think. Combining advanced academic credentials with real-world experience, we solve complex challenges faced by corporations, public agencies, municipalities, and others. Through our hands-on management and strict adherence to the highest standards of integrity, we integrate people, science, tools, and processes to most effectively support our clients to achieve their goals in the delivery of safe and reliable water supplies. Read More -
Analytical Services for Clogging and Corrosion
In partnership with a highly reputable licensed regional laboratory, we offer investigative and diagnostic analyses for biofouling, clogging, and corrosion troubleshooting to clients throughout North America (including Mexico and the Caribbean). These are in-depth quality analyses, offered with interpretation, to help get your system on the path to recovery. While not just any laboratory will conduct these analyses specific to clogging and corrosion, and few are willing or able to explain the results, we provide comprehensive laboratory analysis and thorough interpretation with a level of service and expertise that can only be provided by Ground Water Science. Read More -
Publications and Manuals
Ground Water Science is proud to offer a variety of publications and manuals through which we can continue to share our extensive knowledge of ground water systems and water well system design and management. Whether or not you are able to work with us as consultants or to attend one of our professional seminars, you deserve to add these comprehensive texts to your library today! Read More -
Professional Seminars
Mark your calendar: The Sustainable Wellfield - An Asset Management Short Course presented by NGWA, with our Stuart Smith and Allen Comeskey as your instructors. This one is in October 2016 in Westerville, Ohio USA. Versions of it have been before in Ohio and internationally. We can bring the course to you! At Ground Water Science, we believe that a well-informed client is an ideal client. The more you know about your source water infrastructure, the less likely it is that you will be harmed by a poor decision or mismanaged project, and the easier it will be for us to communicate clearly as we work together to address your ground water system issues. So to enhance your own understanding of ground water and source water infrastructure systems, Ground Water Science offers professional seminars on a range of topics, mostly relating to ground water and water well systems and issues, including our all-day Ground Water and Wells and Sustainable Wells courses. We have offered these in locations as varied as Ohio, Queensland Australia, and Tanzania. Look for them in Ohio in the near future. We offer Ohio EPA operator training hours. Read More
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Welcome to Ground Water Science!
Solutions and Expertise for Ground Water, Wells, and Water Supply
Ground Water Science is focused on the science and technique of ground water and how to keep it flowing. We have been providing hydrogeology, well & drain maintenance and rehabilitation planning and training since 1986 (initially as S.A. Smith Consulting Services). 
Our command of rock and glacial hydrogeology is second to none regionally. And our expertise in ground water system biofouling, maintenance, and rehabilitation (asset management) is recognized and in-demand across North America and beyond, including some very large ground water projects. (Learn more about some of our representative clientsand projects - the ones we can discuss - here.)
Our partners, Stuart A. Smith and Allen E. Comeskey, are certified and licensed geologists and ground water professionals with advanced degrees and over 30 years each of diverse, high-quality, hands-on professional experience. We offer an integrated understanding of hydrogeologic, biogeochemical, and well performance issues. And we have contributed to several landmark publications pertaining to drilling, well construction, biofouling analysis, and well rehabilitation.
Ground Water Science is a small firm by design. Our managing principals work directly (not filtered through field staff) with each of our clients, large or small. Our veterans are not kept in captivity, nor put out to pasture by the new wave HR hobbling our corporate colleagues, but are free to escape the office and take our expertise to the job site, regionally or worldwide, working hands-on with our colleagues in well construction, service, engineering, and water operations.
We strive to consistently deliver superior customer service by insisting that things are done the right way, by serving as advocates for our clients, and by valuing and maintaining our integrity in everything that we do. We work throughout North America and beyond, so if you think that we can help you, then please contact us.
More than being merely a sales tool, this site also includes technical resources and links to many more. And we provide training and a growing list of publications to improve your understanding of ground water and wells - which will make you a better client and well operator. So take a look around, and let's keep that water moving!
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What kind of work do we do? Here is an example:
Coldwater has a carbonate-aquifer wellfield with modest-capacity wells that have a history of repeated and severe maintenance problems. Work completed: First we got them out of water emergency by planning and implementing a well cleaning program. We then reviewed their wellfield management, combining development of a large and highly detailed MODFLOW-MODPATH model, with dual use of wellfield use planning and WHPA delineation, and further well rehabilitation work to improve performance. With the siting of two new wells to replace multiple older wells for new water treatment plant, a water supply transformation was completed. Work conducted with our colleagues at Fanning/Howey Associates.
As indicated in the chart, well cleaning had the effect of "adding a new well" without physically siting (or bearing the expense of) a new well. Again, Ground Water Science demonstrates its versatility in serving a client's needs over many years.
Office - Western Ohio
Western Ohio (Main) Office
295 S. Lawn Ave.
Bluffton, OH 45817
419-358-0528
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Office - Appalachian Plateau
Appalachian Plateau Office
22 Edgewater Dr.
Poland, OH 44514
330-787-0496
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