In 2020, GeoModel, Inc. conducted a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey at the Historic Pioneer Cemetery located in South Lake Tahoe, California. GeoModel, Inc. located and confirmed 105 burials in the cemetery, during the survey. Members of the Lake Tahoe Historic Society are shown with Matthew Turner, PG, of GeoModel, Inc., in the photo above. … [Read more...]
Stanton Family Cemetery Survey Conducted by GeoModel, Inc.
Earlier this year in 2020, GeoModel, Inc. conducted a grave locating survey at the Stanton Family Cemetery in Buckingham County, Virginia. The cemetery is approximately 65 feet by 68 feet and contains a total of 49 burials. The cemetery grave survey was conducted by Matthew Turner, a GeoModel, Inc. nationally-known, Licensed Professional with a Master's degree and over 20 years of experience in grave location. Mr. Turner confirmed the 36 known burials and located an additional 13 unmarked … [Read more...]
Locating Underground Sinkholes
Are sinkholes common in your state? Is there a sinkhole in your own neighborhood? If so, you’re probably wondering if your property will be impacted, and what you can do about it. Using ground penetrating radar (GPR), GeoModel, Inc. can conduct sinkhole investigations without disturbing your property. What is a sinkhole? A sinkhole (also known as a cenote, sink, sink-hole, shakehole, swallet, swallow hole, or doline) is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the … [Read more...]
How to Locate Underground Utilities
How to Locate Underground Utilities By Matthew Turner, PG Vice President GeoModel, Inc. www.geomodel.com Locating underground utilities should be performed by an experienced licensed professional with many years of locating utilities. Many times, buried utilities are located by people from Low-Cost Locating Companies with only little experience and with limited locating equipment, which can lead to unidentified utilities that will be hit during excavation. Many people have been … [Read more...]
How to Find Something without Excavating
There are more than 20 million miles of underground utilities in the U.S. Those are enough buried lines and pipes to equal a football field for every American man, woman and child. Every 6 minutes, one of those buried lines or pipes is damaged because someone was excavating without knowing the utility line was there. If you need to find utility lines under your private business, church, school property, or facility, and want to avoid catastrophic mistakes, you need to know where the utility … [Read more...]