Traut Companies delivers a full suite of environmental services backed by decades of experience, industry-leading equipment, and a reputation built on accuracy, reliability, and professionalism. Our team supports environmental consultants, engineers, and project managers with high-quality Sonic Drilling, efficient GeoProbe Drilling, and advanced Downhole Video Logging & Inspection—each designed to provide clean data, reduce risks, and keep projects moving on schedule. We also offer dependable Pumps and Pump Service for groundwater sampling, remediation, and site-specific pumping needs, ensuring your systems perform flawlessly in the field.

With a long history of partnering on complex environmental investigations across the region, Traut is known for delivering precise results and exceptional customer service. Whether you’re planning a site assessment, remediation project, or monitoring-well installation, our experienced team is ready to support your goals. Reach out to discuss your project and see how Traut Companies can bring clarity, efficiency, and confidence to your environmental work.

Traut Companies’ sonic drilling service delivers fast, precise, and environmentally responsible data collection for complex site investigations. Using high-frequency vibration to advance the drill string, sonic drilling produces exceptionally clean, continuous samples with minimal disturbance—helping environmental professionals obtain the reliable subsurface information their projects demand.

Our sonic rigs are designed to solve common environmental drilling challenges:

• Obtain high-integrity samples with minimal disruption for accurate contaminant delineation
• Reduce cross-contamination risks through cleaner boreholes and controlled sampling
• Drill efficiently through mixed or hard formations where traditional methods struggle
• Access difficult sites with versatile rig setups capable of tight, urban, or remote locations
• Install high-quality monitoring wells with reduced borehole collapse and better annular seals
• Minimize environmental impact by lowering waste generation and disturbance to sensitive areas

Whether you’re characterizing complex geology, supporting remediation, or collecting high-quality core, Traut’s sonic drilling team provides precise results, dependable performance, and field-tested expertise to keep environmental projects on track.

Equipment: 

• Three Versa-Sonic rigs with 50K Heads on Kenworth trucks
• SonicDrill (SDC550) track-mounted large size Sonic rigs with 50k heads
• Skid loaders are provided on job sites

Capabilities: 

• Core samples can be taken up to 600’ deep
  • 4-inch and 6-inch diameter continuous cores in unconsolidated and solid formations
  • 6-inch, 8-inch and 10-inch diameter temporary casing liner
• 4-inch x 5 feet Sonic Lexon liner cores
• Install monitoring or temporary wells up to 6-inch diameter
• Ability to do water profiling and vapor sampling
• Well abandonment and overshoot capabilities
• Test borings for municipal and high production wells
• Temporary wells for capacity test
• IDW Containerization and handling systems
• Support truck and rig can be separated to reconfigure for small locations
• Drill all over the contiguous United States
• Experience in drilling through water on a barge/mudbuggy
• Artesian well control
• Video camera, gamma logs, heat-pulse flow meter, and acoustic televiewer can be used on Sonic boreholes

At Traut Companies, our GeoProbe drilling service is purpose-built to solve the most stubborn environmental investigation challenges. Whether you’re working on tight urban lots, wetlands, or near existing infrastructure, GeoProbe’s compact, direct-push technology lets us access difficult sites with minimal mobilization and footprint. 

Traut Companies expert GeoProbe drillers get rapid soil and groundwater sampling, reliable stratigraphic logs, and swift installation of monitoring wells or temporary borings—avoiding the delays and costs of conventional rigs. With less disturbance to the surrounding area and fewer site-reset hassles, we help you keep your project moving forward. Let our GeoProbe team deliver consistent data, efficient field operations, and responsive support so your environmental investigation stays on schedule, on budget, and on-target. 

Equipment

• One Geoprobe 7800 with Auger head on 4x4 Dodge
• One Geoprobe 6610DT with Auger on tracks
• Air knife available

Capabilities

• Probe up to 100 feet
• Auger up to 50 feet
• Petro-fund registered contractor
• Drill monitor, recovery, and residential wells
• Sample soil, water, and soil vapor up to 100 feet
• Continuous core samples of unconsolidated materials
• Discrete interval sampling capabilities
• Sil and sub-slab vapor implants
• Vertical and horizontal well abandonments
• Drill 4” and 6” wells up to 50 feet
• Set 2” and 4” wells up to 50 feet
• Track rig can fit into smaller, indoor locations
• Air knife can be used with or without water for pot hole and utility verification

Traut Companies offers advanced Downhole Geophysical Data Logging to provide a magnitude of geological data parameters. We also offer Well Video Inspections to give you a clear, high-resolution view of the well casing and borehole conditions—so you can identify issues and make informed decisions with confidence. 

Our experienced technicians deploy robust camera systems capable of capturing real-time visual data inside well casings, screens, & open boreholes. 

With multiple cable winch options included with one mobilization, an array of geophysical logging tools can be selected to gather your required data. Traut Companies owns multiple geophysical tools with the ability to rent any specific tool needed for your project.

The benefits for your environmental project include: 

• Accurate detection of well casing damage or deformation
• Precise verification of packer seal locations
• Seamless documentation of depth-specific conditions
• Accurately identify geological formation transition depths
• Record borehole size measurements with fracture identification
• Measure fluid conductivity and temperature to identify fluid flow in the borehole
• Measure formation resistivity to identify permeable zones in the aquifer

With Traut’s expert team handling equipment selection, deployment, and log interpretation, you gain actionable insights faster, reduce downtime, and enhance the reliability of your subsurface data.

Traut Companies provides dependable pumps and responsive pump service tailored to the demands of environmental investigation and remediation. From groundwater extraction and purge systems to long-term monitoring wells and temporary dewatering setups, our team ensures your project has reliable, properly sized pumping solutions that keep fieldwork running smoothly. We install, service, and maintain a wide range of environmental pumps—submersible, pneumatic, bladder, and peristaltic—ensuring accurate flow control, consistent performance, and minimal downtime.

With decades of experience supporting environmental consultants and engineers, Traut understands the urgency and precision required for sampling events, pilot tests, and remediation operations. Our technicians troubleshoot quickly, offer proactive maintenance, and provide on-site support to get systems up and running fast. When you partner with Traut, you receive expert guidance, reliable equipment, and service you can count on from start to finish.