ECR Inc.
PO Box 966
Acton, MA 01720
(978) 500-3199

ECR provides a full range of site investigation services, including:

• drilling programs using a variety of techniques, including hollow-stem auger, bedrock coring, drive-and-wash, GeoProbe(TM), air rotary, and hand auger
• designing and installing large- and small-diameter monitoring well networks, including multilevel wells
• soil gas surveys
• soil sampling and analysis
• groundwater sampling and analysis using low-flow sampling methods
• surface water and sediment sampling and analysis
• indoor air sampling and analysis

ECR is experienced in performing investigations at sites impacted by a variety of chemical constituents, including:

• petroleum hydrocarbons (gasoline, fuel oils, etc.) and their associated chemical constituents (benzene, naphthalene, etc.)
• gasoline additives such as methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE), ethylene dibromide (EDB), tert-amyl methyl ether (TAME), ethyl-tert-butyl ether (ETBE), etc.
• chlorinated solvents (trichloroethylene [TCE], tetrachloroethylene [PCE], 1,1,1-trichlorethane [TCA], 1,1-dichlorethylene [DCE], etc.) and their breakdown products (including chloroethane and vinyl chloride)
• other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), methyl iso-butyl ketone (MIBK), etc.
• metals (arsenic, trivalent and hexavalent chromium, lead, mercury, etc.)
• petrogenic and pyrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
• polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
• cyanide
• perchlorate ion
• pesticides and herbicides