
Your site is one living system.
Ten Diagnostic Categories
We can measure all of it.
Ground
Plant
Animal
Pest
Water
Product
Utilities
Contamination
Risk
Climate
About Ground Testing
Edapho can test any ground you operate on, disturbed or not. This includes pads, lease roads, right-of-way, reclaimed acreage, buffer ground, and any parcel that has to hold up to an operation or an inspection. Show us the dirt. We can test it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Ground you wish to:
- Get a real baseline on before or after operations. Also see Ground.
- Establish cover on after the work is done. Also see Plant.
- Reclaim without a habitat problem stopping you. Also see Animal.
- Restore without an invasive taking it back. Also see Pest.
- Get water off of and through without a fight. Also see Water.
- Amend or stabilize so it actually performs. Also see Product.
- Put pads, lines, and equipment on with confidence. Also see Utilities.
- Know is clean before you disturb it or hand it back. Also see Contamination.
- Know won't move, slide, or settle under the operation. Also see Risk.
- Build to hold up to what this site gets. Also see Climate.
Ground that:
- Won't come back after it's been worked. Also see Ground.
- Won't hold cover no matter what you seed. Also see Plant.
- Has habitat on it that stops what you need to do. Also see Animal.
- Grows back nothing but the invasive. Also see Pest.
- Won't drain and won't take water. Also see Water.
- Doesn't respond to what's spec'd for it. Also see Product.
- Won't hold a pad, a line, or a foundation. Also see Utilities.
- Turned up something nobody documented. Also see Contamination.
- Slides, slumps, or settles under the operation. Also see Risk.
- Erodes or bakes out faster every year. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- What condition your ground is actually in. Also see Ground.
- What will grow back once you're done with it. Also see Plant.
- What's living on the ground before you touch it. Also see Animal.
- What comes back if you clear or disturb it. Also see Pest.
- Where the water goes when it hits your site. Also see Water.
- Whether the ground can be made to perform. Also see Product.
- What's under the pad before you build on it. Also see Utilities.
- What this ground was before your operation. Also see Contamination.
- Whether the ground will hold. Also see Risk.
- How your ground behaves through the seasons here. Also see Climate.
About Plant Testing
Edapho can test any planting tied to your operation. This includes reclamation seeding, revegetation, erosion cover, buffers and screening, native plantings, and anything expected to establish on ground you've worked. Name a plant. We can test it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Plants you wish to:
- Use to build disturbed ground back. Also see Ground.
- Establish and figure out how best to grow. Also see Plant.
- Use as habitat where the ground calls for it. Also see Animal.
- Use to hold ground without a spray program. Also see Pest.
- Establish without irrigating forever. Also see Water.
- Grow without a soil spec that never works. Also see Product.
- Screen a pad, a road, or a facility with. Also see Utilities.
- Establish on ground you know is clean. Also see Contamination.
- Use to hold a slope, a bank, or a berm. Also see Risk.
- Match to the conditions the site actually has. Also see Climate.
Plants that:
- Establish on one pad and fail on the next. Also see Ground.
- Came in thin, patchy, or not at all. Also see Plant.
- Wildlife destroy before they take. Also see Animal.
- Are getting choked out by what came back first. Also see Pest.
- Die the second you stop watering them. Also see Water.
- Won't take in the fill or the topsoil brought in. Also see Product.
- Die out along the roads, the pads, and the lines. Also see Utilities.
- Won't establish on ground with a history. Also see Contamination.
- Are gone from the slope you need held. Also see Risk.
- Can't take the exposure on this ground. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- What your cover is doing for the ground underneath. Also see Ground.
- What will actually establish here. Also see Plant.
- What planting supports the habitat you disturbed. Also see Animal.
- How to revegetate without the invasive winning. Also see Pest.
- What establishes without permanent watering. Also see Water.
- Whether the soil you hauled in will grow anything. Also see Product.
- What to plant to screen the facility. Also see Utilities.
- Whether anything in the ground shows up in the vegetation. Also see Contamination.
- What would hold your worst ground. Also see Risk.
- What holds up to the sun, wind, and heat here. Also see Climate.
About Animal Testing
Edapho can assess how your operation and the animals on or around it affect each other. This includes protected and listed species, habitat, wildlife corridors, birds, pollinators, and anything on or near the site that changes what you can do. Tell us what's on the ground. We can look into it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Animals you wish to:
- Accommodate without giving up the ground. Also see Ground.
- Support with what you plant back. Also see Plant.
- Know about before you plan around them. Also see Animal.
- Protect from what moves in after disturbance. Also see Pest.
- Keep water available for on the site. Also see Water.
- Keep clear of what you're applying or storing. Also see Product.
- Route around your roads, pads, and lines. Also see Utilities.
- Keep off ground you're not sure about. Also see Contamination.
- Handle right where a designation is in play. Also see Risk.
- Support through what the conditions here do. Also see Climate.
- Habitat sitting on ground you need to work. Also see Ground.
- Wildlife destroying every reclamation seeding you put in. Also see Plant.
- A listed species that showed up in survey. Also see Animal.
- Species pushed out and something worse moving in. Also see Pest.
- A wetland or a water feature nobody flagged. Also see Water.
- Application or storage restrictions because of what's on site. Also see Product.
- A corridor cut by the road, the line, or the layout. Also see Utilities.
- Wildlife on ground with a history. Also see Contamination.
- A designation that changed what the operation can do. Also see Risk.
- Habitat shifting as the conditions shift. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- What's living on the ground before you touch it. Also see Ground.
- What planting would support the habitat you disturbed. Also see Plant.
- What a survey would actually find. Also see Animal.
- What moves in after you clear. Also see Pest.
- Whether your water features matter to what's here. Also see Water.
- Whether what you're storing is a problem for what's on site. Also see Product.
- Whether your layout cuts a corridor. Also see Utilities.
- Whether anything in the ground reaches what lives on it. Also see Contamination.
- Whether a designation changes what you can operate. Also see Risk.
- How the conditions here shape what stays. Also see Climate.
About Pest Testing
Edapho can test for what's working against your ground, and for the reason it keeps coming back. This includes invasive species, weeds taking disturbed ground, insects, rodents, disease, and anything else forcing a program on you. Name what's after your ground. We can test for it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Pressure you wish to:
- Starve out by fixing the ground it favors. Also see Ground.
- Keep off the cover you're establishing. Also see Plant.
- Keep away from the species you have to protect. Also see Animal.
- Break the cycle on for good. Also see Pest.
- Control without putting anything in the drainage. Also see Water.
- Handle without a program you're locked into. Also see Product.
- Keep out of the facilities and the equipment. Also see Utilities.
- Manage without adding more chemical to the ground. Also see Contamination.
- Stop before it spreads past the lease line. Also see Risk.
- Get ahead of as the seasons stretch. Also see Climate.
- The same thing coming back on the same disturbed ground. Also see Ground.
- Something taking the reclamation faster than it establishes. Also see Plant.
- Pressure on the species you're required to protect. Also see Animal.
- An invasive that doesn't die at label rate anymore. Also see Pest.
- A pond or a pit that turns green and stays green. Also see Water.
- A spray program you inherited with the site. Also see Product.
- Rodents or pests in the facilities and the equipment. Also see Utilities.
- Pressure that got worse the more it was treated. Also see Contamination.
- An invasive spreading off your lease onto a neighbor's. Also see Risk.
- Pressure showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- Whether what keeps coming back is a soil problem. Also see Ground.
- Why reclamation holds on one pad and not another. Also see Plant.
- What the pressure means for the species on site. Also see Animal.
- What's driving resistance here. Also see Pest.
- What's turning your pit or your pond green. Also see Water.
- How much of the control spending is preventable. Also see Product.
- What's drawing pests into the facility. Also see Utilities.
- What all that treatment has left in the ground. Also see Contamination.
- What's coming next based on what's here now. Also see Risk.
- How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Climate.
About Water Testing
Edapho can test the water on your site and the water moving through it. This includes groundwater and monitoring wells, produced water, process and cooling water, discharge, stormwater and runoff, pits and ponds, and whatever leaves the property. Point us to your water. We can test it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Water you wish to:
- Get into the ground instead of off the site. Also see Ground.
- Use to establish cover without hauling water forever. Also see Plant.
- Keep available and clean for what lives here. Also see Animal.
- Keep from breeding in the pits and the ponds. Also see Pest.
- Understand across the whole site, top to bottom. Also see Water.
- Keep clean of what you're applying or storing. Also see Product.
- Route, treat, and discharge without a problem. Also see Utilities.
- Know is clean for everything downstream. Also see Contamination.
- Keep away from the structures and the slopes. Also see Risk.
- Handle when it comes all at once. Also see Climate.
- Water that won't drain and ground that won't take it. Also see Ground.
- Cover that dies the second you stop watering. Also see Plant.
- A wetland or a feature nobody flagged. Also see Animal.
- Pits and ponds breeding everything. Also see Pest.
- Produced water you're paying to move and manage. Also see Water.
- Water that fights the chemistry you're running. Also see Product.
- Discharge or treatment costing more every year. Also see Utilities.
- Groundwater that changed after your operation started. Also see Contamination.
- Water taking a berm, a slope, or a bank out. Also see Risk.
- Stormwater that overwhelms what was designed for it. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- Where the water goes when it hits your site. Also see Ground.
- Why cover holds where it's wet and not where it's dry. Also see Plant.
- Whether your water matters to what lives here. Also see Animal.
- What's turning your pond or your pit green. Also see Pest.
- What's actually in your produced water. Also see Water.
- What your water does to what you're running. Also see Product.
- Whether your treatment and discharge match the ground. Also see Utilities.
- Whether anything is reaching your groundwater. Also see Contamination.
- What's leaving your property in the water. Also see Risk.
- What a real storm does to this site. Also see Climate.
About Product Testing
Edapho can test any product going into or onto your site. This includes treatment and process chemistry, drilling and completion fluids, dust suppressants, soil stabilizers, imported fill and topsoil, amendments for reclamation, solvents and degreasers, sealers and coatings, and anything else spec'd, hauled in, or applied. Name a product. We can test it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Products you wish to:
- Amend or stabilize the ground with so it performs. Also see Ground.
- Use to get reclamation cover established and holding. Also see Plant.
- Use without a problem for what's on site. Also see Animal.
- Swap for something that doesn't lock you into a program. Also see Pest.
- Keep out of the drainage, the discharge, and the groundwater. Also see Water.
- Prove out before you run it across the operation. Also see Product.
- Store and handle right at the facility. Also see Utilities.
- Replace with something cleaner. Also see Contamination.
- Use without drift or runoff past the lease line. Also see Risk.
- Have hold up to what this site actually gets. Also see Climate.
- Stabilizer or amendment that didn't do what the spec said. Also see Ground.
- Imported topsoil that won't grow anything. Also see Plant.
- Storage or application restrictions because of what's on site. Also see Animal.
- A treatment program you inherited with the site. Also see Pest.
- Chemistry showing up in the discharge or the monitoring well. Also see Water.
- Product that performs on paper and not on the ground. Also see Product.
- Chemical stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Utilities.
- Residue in the ground from years of the same thing. Also see Contamination.
- Dust or spray drifting off the site. Also see Risk.
- Material that fails in the heat or the freeze here. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- What your amendments are actually doing to the ground. Also see Ground.
- Whether the soil you hauled in will grow anything. Also see Plant.
- Whether what you're storing is a problem for what's on site. Also see Animal.
- Whether you're solving the pressure or feeding it. Also see Pest.
- Where your chemistry ends up when it rains. Also see Water.
- Whether the spec matches what the ground needs. Also see Product.
- What you're storing and handling, and where. Also see Utilities.
- What's built up after years of the same program. Also see Contamination.
- What a regulator would say about what you're running. Also see Risk.
- Whether the product holds up to this climate. Also see Climate.
About Utilities Testing
Edapho can test how the facilities and systems on your site perform for the people working in them. This includes shops, offices, control rooms, water and treatment systems, power, cooling and ventilation, indoor air, lighting, and the bills attached to all of it. Tell us what's on the meter. We can test it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Something you wish to:
- Site and build knowing exactly what's underneath. Also see Ground.
- Screen or plant around so it works with the site. Also see Plant.
- Lay out without cutting a corridor. Also see Animal.
- Keep rodents and pests out of. Also see Pest.
- Supply, treat, and discharge water from without a problem. Also see Water.
- Store your chemistry in right. Also see Product.
- Run cheaper and cleaner. Also see Utilities.
- Know is healthy for the people working in it. Also see Contamination.
- Site out of the water's way. Also see Risk.
- Keep workable in July and January both. Also see Climate.
- A pad, a foundation, or a line on ground that won't hold. Also see Ground.
- Runoff off the roof or the hardscape killing what's below. Also see Plant.
- A layout that cut a corridor nobody flagged. Also see Animal.
- Rodents or pests in the facility and the equipment. Also see Pest.
- Water or discharge costing more every year. Also see Water.
- Chemistry stored where you'd rather it wasn't. Also see Product.
- An energy bill that doesn't match what you're running. Also see Utilities.
- Crews that feel rough working in a certain building. Also see Contamination.
- A facility that takes water every few years. Also see Risk.
- Cooling or ventilation that runs constantly and never catches up. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- What's under the pad before you build on it. Also see Ground.
- What to plant to screen the facility. Also see Plant.
- Whether your layout works with what lives here. Also see Animal.
- What's drawing pests into the facility. Also see Pest.
- Where your water is actually going. Also see Water.
- What you're storing and where. Also see Product.
- Where your energy is actually going. Also see Utilities.
- Whether the air your crews breathe is doing them any favors. Also see Contamination.
- Whether your facilities sit where they should. Also see Risk.
- What it'd cost to keep a building workable year round. Also see Climate.
About Contamination Testing
Edapho can test for what shouldn't be in your ground, your water, your air, or your facilities, including whatever was there before you were. This includes hydrocarbons and crude, produced water and brine, drilling mud and cuttings, solvents, metals, PFAS, tank bottoms, spill residue, buried waste, and legacy contamination. Tell us the history. We can test for it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Something you wish to:
- Know is clean before you disturb it or hand it back. Also see Ground.
- Know will grow cover once you're done. Also see Plant.
- Know is safe for what lives on the site. Also see Animal.
- Clean up without adding more chemical to it. Also see Pest.
- Prove clean before it moves downstream or into groundwater. Also see Water.
- Replace with something cleaner. Also see Product.
- Deliver as a healthy space for your crews. Also see Utilities.
- Document before anybody asks. Also see Contamination.
- Know about before it becomes a liability. Also see Risk.
- Handle knowing the weather works on it. Also see Climate.
- Ground nothing will grow on and no reason you can find. Also see Ground.
- Reclamation that won't establish on ground with a past. Also see Plant.
- Contamination on ground with habitat on it. Also see Animal.
- Ground that got worse the more it was treated. Also see Pest.
- Groundwater or a monitoring well that changed. Also see Water.
- Residue from chemistry somebody ran before you. Also see Product.
- An old spill or storage area near the facility. Also see Utilities.
- A site with a history nobody wrote down. Also see Contamination.
- Something migrating onto your site from off it. Also see Risk.
- Contamination that moves with every wet season. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- What this ground was before your operation. Also see Ground.
- Whether anything in the ground shows up in the vegetation. Also see Plant.
- Whether anything in the ground reaches what lives here. Also see Animal.
- What past treatment left behind. Also see Pest.
- Whether anything is reaching your groundwater. Also see Water.
- What years of the same chemistry built up. Also see Product.
- What your facilities are actually made of. Also see Utilities.
- Whether the site would hold up to scrutiny. Also see Contamination.
- What a regulator, a buyer, or a lender would find. Also see Risk.
- What a wet season turns up that a dry one doesn't. Also see Climate.
About Risk Testing
Edapho can assess what threatens your operation, your ground, and the people on it. This includes spill and release exposure, contamination liability, flooding, slope and berm stability, protected species, regulations, reclamation obligations, and whatever sits upstream or downstream. Tell us where you are. We can look into it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Something you wish to:
- Know won't move, slide, or settle under the operation. Also see Ground.
- Plant to hold the slope or the berm you're counting on. Also see Plant.
- Handle right where a species designation is in play. Also see Animal.
- Stop at the lease line before it spreads. Also see Pest.
- Get out of the water's reach. Also see Water.
- Run without drift, runoff, or release liability. Also see Product.
- Site out of harm's way. Also see Utilities.
- Clear before you take it on or hand it back. Also see Contamination.
- Know about before a regulator or a lender does. Also see Risk.
- Build to hold up to what this site gets. Also see Climate.
- Ground that slides, slumps, or settles. Also see Ground.
- A slope or a berm with nothing holding it. Also see Plant.
- A listed species that changed the operation. Also see Animal.
- An invasive spreading off the lease. Also see Pest.
- A site that floods or sits in the floodplain. Also see Water.
- A release or a drift event you're answering for. Also see Product.
- A facility or a well in the wrong spot. Also see Utilities.
- A legacy problem nobody priced. Also see Contamination.
- A regulation, a permit, or an obligation you found out about late. Also see Risk.
- Storms that hit harder than the design assumed. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- Whether the ground will hold. Also see Ground.
- What would hold your worst ground. Also see Plant.
- Whether a designation changes what you can operate. Also see Animal.
- What's moving onto the site from off it. Also see Pest.
- Whether you're in the floodplain and what that means. Also see Water.
- What you're sending off the property. Also see Product.
- Whether your facilities sit where they should. Also see Utilities.
- What's actually upstream or downstream of you. Also see Contamination.
- What a regulator, an insurer, or a lender would find. Also see Risk.
- What a hundred-year rain does to this site. Also see Climate.
About Climate Testing
Edapho can test how your site performs under the conditions it actually sits in, and the ones coming. This includes heat, rainfall intensity, drought, freeze and thaw, wind, and the exposure your operation has to survive. Tell us your conditions. We can build for it.
Not sure if you need testing? We have found three simple identifiers. Do you have a:
Something you wish to:
- Have hold up through the wet and dry cycles here. Also see Ground.
- Plant to match the exposure this site has. Also see Plant.
- Support the species here as conditions shift. Also see Animal.
- Stay ahead of as the pest seasons stretch. Also see Pest.
- Handle when the rain comes all at once. Also see Water.
- Spec so it doesn't fail in the heat or the freeze. Also see Product.
- Keep workable in July and January both. Also see Utilities.
- Handle knowing the weather works on it. Also see Contamination.
- Build to hold up to whatever the year does. Also see Risk.
- Operate in without hinging on the weather. Also see Climate.
- Ground that swells, shrinks, or erodes with every cycle. Also see Ground.
- Cover that can't take the exposure here. Also see Plant.
- Habitat shifting as the conditions shift. Also see Animal.
- Pressure showing up earlier and staying later. Also see Pest.
- Stormwater that overwhelms the design. Also see Water.
- Material or chemistry that fails in the heat or the freeze. Also see Product.
- Cooling or ventilation that never catches up. Also see Utilities.
- Contamination that moves every wet season. Also see Contamination.
- Weather that hits harder than the design assumed. Also see Risk.
- Conditions that don't match what the site was built for. Also see Climate.
You want to know:
- How your ground behaves through the seasons here. Also see Ground.
- What holds up to the sun, wind, and heat here. Also see Plant.
- How the conditions here shape what stays. Also see Animal.
- How a longer season changes what you're fighting. Also see Pest.
- What a real storm does to this site. Also see Water.
- Whether what you're running holds up to this climate. Also see Product.
- What it'd cost to keep a building workable year round. Also see Utilities.
- What a wet season turns up that a dry one doesn't. Also see Contamination.
- What a bad weather year is really costing you. Also see Risk.
- Whether your site matches the conditions you actually get. Also see Climate.
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