Tim Gallagher, President of Enviroprobe Services in Moorestown, NJ, was recently awarded a project that required a 420-ft soil boring outside of Newark, NJ. Tim was no stranger to Geoprobe® sonic tooling as his crew had already performed several soil borings using the Geoprobe® SDT60 (Sonic Dual Tube system for 6-in. casing). Tim saw the SDT45 Weighted Wireline system (WWL) demonstrated at the Geoprobe® Sonic Field Day in New Jersey last fall, and read about it in the 2015 Spring Probing Times, so he asked if Geoprobe® could assist with the project.

Tim Gallagher, owner and founder of New Jersey-based Enviroprobe Service Inc., made his way into the drilling industry about 20 years ago. He’s expanded the environmental monitoring company to include a vaster array of geophysical services over the years, but drilling for samples remains the core offering. His ascent in the drilling industry wasn’t always the plan. He graduated with a finance degree and went to work for a bank in the mid ’90s, but when that industry started laying off he decided to make a change. Now that he’s brought the business up, he’s applying his cautiously optimistic tactics to stimulate growth without compromising longevity.

In a recent discussion about his purchase of a Dando Drilling sonic rig, Enviroprobe Service Inc. CEO Tim Gallagher said, “Everyone knew that, at some point, sonic head technology would become important to the environmental and geotechnical drilling sectors.”