Fissures are a real threat in Arizona

My husband and I found our dream home!  An ideal home - a perfect place to raise our children, safely. Imagine our shock when my husband came in one morning and told us we don’t have a back yard anymore! What once was a safe play area for our children, literally overnight, opened up into a canyon across our entire yard and into our neighbor’s.  The government authorities called it a “fissure.”  Apparently, this one had been filled with dirt years ago before the developer even built the home!  It had been there all this time.  And we didn’t even know it. If we had known better, we could have easily checked the property for underground fissures before we purchased. We needed an independent third party to come to our home and test to determine if the property had a fissure running through it filled in with dirt – hiding the fissure.  Only to later reopen threatening our safety and home.

You don’t have to wait to have this problem; you can have your home checked today.

Call us today to schedule a screening for your property

In state                                   (480) 969-2021

Out of state, call toll free       (800) 331-4657

Email thorpe@seeop.com

Where is your property?

This is a map of the portion of Arizona where fissures have reached the surface and where many more are believed to be hidden underground.  At any time, these underground fissures can reach the surface damaging property and putting lives in danger.  If your property is in any shaded region of this map, you should consider having it screened for hidden fissures.

Call us today to schedule a screening for your property

In state                                   (480) 969-2021

Out of state, call toll free       (800) 331-4657

Email thorpe@seeop.com

Hidden below this backyard is a dangerous fissure that will reach the surface  and open up in a short time.

Fissure and Subsurface Fissure Detection

The two graphics below provide a side-by-side comparison between a fissure free property (on the left) and a property roughly bisected by a fissure (on the right).

                                                                    No fissure                                                       Fissure Below Surface

Thorpe Air Ground Survey Services (TAGSS) is a turnkey service.  The company provides geophysical survey services for a wide range of survey sizes from residential lots up to 100 square miles.  The service includes survey data acquisition on location, data analysis, and report of findings to the customer.

Our survey professionals can help you determine the presence and location of fissures on your property, buried drums, subsurface debris, utilities, or underground storage tanks (UST) at affordable fees.

We can provide large area surveys using state of the art sensor technology flown underneath helicopters as shown above.

Call us today to schedule a screening for your property

In Arizona call                             (480) 969-2021

Out of Arizona, call toll free       (800) 331-4657

Email thorpe@seeop.com