What is a High Resolution Site Characterization?
High Resolution Site Characterizations (HRSC) are a set of methods and techniques used to locate the contamination affecting a site and the geophysical context in which they arise, with a precision adapted to the site’s heterogeneity, for faster and more efficient remediation (definition adapted from EPA).
This innovative approach distinguishes itself with the use of technologies allowing continuous and fast data acquisition with uncertainties of the order of the centimeter. For exemple, figure 1 shows the results of a single probing from 0m to 11m that allows the detection of a Volatil Organic Compounds contamination plume between depths 7.2m and 9.2m (green and blue curves, at the center). Electroconductivity and hydraulic pressures, indicative of soil types, suggest that this contamination takes place after the transition between two granulometric layers.
The results are displayed almost instantaneously and are easily interpreted directly from the site. This ability to collect a great amount of precise, continuous data in real time allows for better cost-effective decision-making with regards to environmental evaluation and site remediation. The resulting multi-scale conceptual model one can infer from the data offers an ability to understand and treat an affected site with a unprecedented accuracy in Québec.
Therefore, complementing your usual characterizations with HRSC allow not only to streamline the process and save costs, but also eliminates many great environmental and economical risks associated with the uncertainty of conventional methods. The synergy of both approaches gives environmental expert a refined understanding of the dynamics of their sites and their contaminants, all the while being more competitive and formulating optimized remediation recommendations, to the great pleasure of their client base!
Technologies LLE's approach
Technologies LLE wants nothing to do with competing with consultants and environmental experts. On the very contrary, our mission is to help you save time, money, and risks by offering the best environmental technologies on the market.
With in mind the goal of optimizing your decisions on matters of site characterization and remediation, we take it upon ourselves to constantly be on the lookout for innovative methods and technologies in the environmental evaluation industry. Hence, while our technicians are higher qualified to answer to all your questions, we cultivate the firm conviction that our approach only takes its value by complementing your expertise.
Thefore, strong of a solid scientific foundation, LLE is proud to be a top choice for consultants both for drilling and HRSC services!
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HRSC advantages
High Resolution Site Characterization offers many great advantages complementary to conventional sampling methods. Discover how HRSC can take your environmental projects to the next level.

HRSC Servives
Discover the different practical applications that a HRSC can start playing in the characterization and remediation of contaminated sites. LLE offers many cost-efficient HRSC services, both basic and R&D oriented.

Les outils de Technologies LLE
Plusieurs outils spécialisés sont mis à votre disposition pour répondre à vos besoins précis. Venez découvrir notre flotte de sonde et leur fonctionnement.
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We are convinced that it is first and foremost your needs that will shape the development of these methodological advances. As a national leader in environmental innovations, it goes without saying that the responsibility of proving the efficiency of our methods completely relies on us. Therefore, do not hesitate if you have questions or concerns regarding the application of our technologies to your project or the limits of our methods.
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