Water & Air field efforts and site visits often involve: chemical and physical assessments of water, sediments, and soils; oversight of groundwater well installation followed by sampling by Water & Air personnel; biological assessments, delineations, and mitigations; noise and air quality monitoring for modeling; data gathering for Environmental Impact Statements and Assessments; and participating in or managing project-related public meetings.
Every field effort requires planning to ensure that project goals will be met by deploying appropriate field team members and equipment in the most efficient way possible. The ideal project will have well-defined goals for which specified data will be collected using accepted methods and compared to predetermined criteria. With typical projects, there is adequate planning and scheduling time for Water & Air to develop project-specific, preprinted field sheets to ensure that all required data are collected and properly documented. For some tasks, electronic data entry occurs in the field and typically includes location information and meta-data for GIS databases. In rare cases when adequate planning time is not available, experienced staff members must identify project goals and use good professional judgment to rapidly field an appropriately equipped team. One example for Water & Air was fielding a 4-person team for a 10-day effort to chemically characterize candidate hurricane debris reduction sites throughout Puerto Rico; the team and equipment were airborne within 24 hours of the request for help.
With adequate information about the site or system being assessed, Water & Air can develop a cost-efficient approach for a site assessment. A good approach practically eliminates the possible need for, and expense of, restaging a field effort because the initial effort was understaffed or poorly equipped or lacked logistical support.
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| Air & Noise |
 | Mold Studies |
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| Assessment, Remediation, & Monitoring |
 | Cumberland Farms Action Plan |  | FDEP Groundwater Assessment |  | Arsenic Site Assessment and Remediation |
 | Rails to Trails Corridor |  | Tacachale Solvent Site Assessment |
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| Biology & Ecology |
 | Babcock Ranch Preserve |  | Egans Creek Greenway |  | Everglades Nutrient Removal Area |
 | Hypoxia Survey |  | Ponce De Leon Inlet |  | Powerline Corridor |
 | Stream Condition Index Evaluation |  | Suwannee River WMD |  | Upper Ocklawaha River Basin |
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| Landfill / Solid Waste Compliance Monitoring |
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| Planning |
 | Circle B Bar Ranch |  | Dredge Material Management |  | Florida Nature Parks |
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| Water Quality |
 | Characterizations for Hurricane Responses |  | Seepage and Lake Wimauma |  | Turbidity Monitoring Projects |
 | Water Circulation & Dilution Projects |  | Water Quality Monitoring for Everglades |
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| Water Resources Engineering |
 | Cypress Creek Restoration Project |  | Minimum Flows & Levels | | |
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| Water Supply Permitting, Development, & Monitoring |
 | Deep Well Installations and Monitoring |  | Hydrologic Monitoring |  | Little Big Sturgeon Consumptive Use |
 | Wellfield Siting, Permitting, and Installation |
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