GES Receives 2024 EBJ Business Achievement Award
San Diego, Calif. (February 2025) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), an independent business research publication that has provided strategic market intelligence to the environmental industry* since 1988, has honored Groundwater and Environmental Services, Inc. (GES) with a Project Merit Business Achievement Award.
“In another year of strong growth for the environmental industry in 2024, a number of companies set themselves apart with their growth, innovation, M&A, or signature projects that merit the special recognition of an EBJ award. With traditional environmental markets in infrastructure, air quality, remediation, water and wastewater, as well as energy transition and climate resilience, it is understandable that companies report growing demand for environmental technology and services,” said Grant Ferrier, editor of Environmental Business Journal and chair of the EBJ Business Achievement Award selection committee. “Pivoting with political change and overcoming the multiple challenges of inflation, supply chains, wage increases, labor shortages and changing markets has almost become routine for the resilient leaders in the environmental industry.”
GES was recognized with a Project Merit Award for their response to an emergency brine release for an energy client at a Louisiana well pad site. Within 48-hours, GES mobilized a team of 30 environmental specialists to manage this release and initiate remediation. Using real-time data and GIS modeling, the team assessed contamination and guided remediation efforts. GES’s rapid response successfully prevented contamination to a nearby creek and a secondary water source for a local municipality while restoring the site to pre-release conditions. Ongoing monitoring continues to evaluate the success of revegetation. The project was completed on budget and restored the site to pre-release conditions. Working seamlessly, recognition is given to the Project Rapid Response Field Team, Technical, Mapping, QA and Reporting teams from the offices of Lewisville and Houston, TX; Baton Rouge, LA; Richmond, VA; Buffalo, NY; Baltimore, MD and Chicago, IL.
The 2024 EBJ awards will be presented live and in-person at the EBJ Business Achievement Awards banquet at Environmental Industry Summit XXIII on April 02-04, 2025 in San Diego, along with CCBJ Business Achievement, Lifetime Achievement and 50-Year Company anniversary awards.
GES is a privately-owned business staffed with talented environmental scientists, engineers, consultants, and subject matter experts. We train and encourage our staff to be innovators, problem solvers, and trusted partners to the organizations that count on us to tackle their most pressing environmental and infrastructure challenges. For 40 years, GES has provided integrated environmental services that drive value for our clients across North America. We work with the world’s leading corporations to develop cost-effective permitting, compliance, design, construction, and operations solutions that balance infrastructure objectives with environmental risk and liability. 100% of GES' business is devoted to providing environmental services, and we are ranked among the top environmental firms by ENR nationally.
EBJ has been published since 1988 by Environmental Business International Inc., an independent research and publishing company focused on the environmental and climate change industries.
* Environmental Business Journal® provides strategic market intelligence to executives and investors in 13 business segments of the environmental industry including environmental consulting & engineering, remediation & industrial services, water & wastewater equipment, air quality & pollution control equipment, hazardous waste management, resource recovery, solid waste management, water/wastewater infrastructure, renewable energy and environmental instrumentation & information systems.