GRA | WGC Program Agenda

LIGHTS, WEB-CAMERA, GROUNDWATER! 2020 PROGRAM AGENDA

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH 8:30AM-8:40AM 8:40AM-9:20AM

R.T. Van Valer

GRA Vice President & Welcome to the Third Annual Groundwater Western Groundwater Resources Association Western Groundwater Congress Chair Congress - GRA Goes Virtual Hollywood!

Devin C. Hughes

9:20AM-9:30AM

Finding Gratitude in the Face of Uncertainty?

Inoculating Your Brain Against Anxiety and Stress Break - 7-Minute Stretch and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

Concurrent Sessions | 9:30AM - 10:55AM Track 2 (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) Track Chair: Leslie Dumas

Track 1 (Water Resources) Track Chair: Rob Gailey

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Recharge Modeling

SGMA Implementation

Moderator: Rob Gailey

Moderator: Leslie Dumas

Presentation Title

Eric Chiang

Wildermuth Environmental, Inc.

Integrated Surface and Ground Water Model for the San Juan Creek Watershed and San Juan Ground Water Basin

Kathleen Kuepper

United Water CD

Achieving Sustainability

by Optimizing Pumping Locations Within an Overdraft Coastal Basin

Helen Dahlke

University of California, Davis

Evolutionary MultiObjective Optimization Of Managed Aquifer Recharge Locations in the Central Valley

Rodney Fricke

GEI Consultants, Inc.

Costs for SGMA Implementation – 2020 Submittals

Alisha Rodriguez

University of California, Davis

Utilizing Fine Resolution Geostatistical Model Results to Influence Groundwater Flow Models

Bill Blomquist

Indiana University

Dispute Resolution Processes and MultiAgency Groundwater Management

Raghu Suribhatla

INTERA

Evaluating Potential for Groundwater Recharge in Southern California Adjudicated Basins

Micah Eggleston

Woodard & Curran

Lesson’s Learned from Technical Evaluation of Undesirable Results from 2020 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH

Concurrent Sessions | 9:30AM - 10:55AM Track 4 (Hot Topics) Track Chair: Ryan Alward

Track 3 (Contaminants) Track Chair: Rob Willhelm Speaker Name

Affiliation

Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Investigation/Costs

Geophysics

Moderator: Rob Wilhelm

Moderator: Tim Parker

Carla Landrum

Martin Hendrie

Rob Gailey

Formation Environmental

Advisian

R. M. Gailey Consulting Hydrogeologist

Developing Remediation and Management Scenarios for Shallow Groundwater Impacted

by Regional Nitrate and Soil Fumigant Contamination

Max Halkjaer

Ramboll

How HydroGeophysics Enriched Managed Aquifer Recharge Solutions

Merideth Goebel

Stanford University

Development of a 3D subsurface sediment texture model using geophysical and CPT data: a tool for recharge site assessment

Tim Parker

Parker Groundwater

Application of Geologic, Geophysics and Water Quality to Characterize Regional and Local Faulting, Geochemistry, and Sequence Stratigraphy for a Proposed Brackish Water Project, Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Basin, California

John Jansen

Collier Consulting, Inc.

Using Geophysics to Site “Forebay-Type” Managed Aquifer Recharge Systems

How Groundwater Modeling Helped Remedial Design For Contaminant Plumes Impacting Los Angeles’ Municipal Supply Wells

An ExperienceBased Probabilistic Approach for Assessing Environmental Cleanup Cost Uncertainty: Application to a Foreclosure Decision for a Former Dry Cleaner Property

Presentation Title

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH 10:55AM-11:05AM

Break - Mindful Meditation and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

Concurrent Sessions | 11:05AM - 12:30PM Track 1 (Water Resources) Track Chair: Rob Gailey

Track 2 (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) Track Chair: Leslie Dumas

Recharge Facilities

Water Quality/Drinking Water

Moderator: Jim Strandberg

Moderator: Rob Gailey

Sam Schaefer

GEI Consultants, Inc.

Facility Improvements to Increase Conveyance and Recharge Capacity as a Regional Adaptive Strategy in Poso Creek Integrated Regional Water Management Plan Area

Natalie Cochran

Woodard & Curran

SGMA and the Human Right to Water Doctrine: Intersections and Juxtapositions

Geno Mammini

Clear Creek Associates

Basin Recharge - Siting, Design, Operation, and Enhancement Considerations

Rob Gailey

R. M. Gailey Consulting Hydrogeologist

Christine Pham

Orange County Water District

Restoring Local Recharge Sources from Invasive Dreissenid Mussels

California Drinking Water Supply Well Vulnerability: Observations Based on the 2012 to 2016 Drought and Sustainable Management Criteria from the 2020 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

Gary M. Gin, R.G LRE Water

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The Holy Grail – In Search of ASR Well Development Optimization

Richard Pauloo University of California, Davis

An online tool for estimating domestic well failure under GSA-specified minimum objectives, and user-specified arbitrary groundwater level decline

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH Concurrent Sessions | 11:05AM - 12:30PM Track 3 (Contaminants) Track Chair: Rob Willhelm

Track 4 (Hot Topics) Track Chair: Ryan Alward

In Situ Remediation

Environmental Justice and Groundwater Management

Moderator: Rob Wilhelm

Moderator: Jena Acos

Daniel Leigh

PeroxyChem, LLC

Biogeochemically Enhanced Reductive Dechlorination for Treatment of Chlorinated Organics

John Friem

Regenesis

Accelerated In-Situ Remediation Using a Synergistic Mixture of Colloidal Carbon and Zero Valent Iron

Brant Smith

PeroxyChem, LLC

Novel Approach to Treating a Comingled Plume of 1,4-Dioxane and Chloroethanes using Alkaline Activated Persulfate

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Laurel Firestone

State Water Resources Control Board

Darcy Bostic

Pacific Institute

MONDAY 4:30PM-6PM PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION

Grab your cocktail menu and follow along with professional mixologists from Basin 141 to get your drink ready and then join us at the President’s Reception to chit-chat with friends, connect with colleagues and meet your GRA board members!

The President’s Reception is sponsored by:

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Tuesday, September 15th 7:00AM-8:00AM GRA’s Third Annual Darcy Dash 5K! This time it’s virtual...GRA’s First Annual Virtual Cycling Challenge!

Concurrent Sessions | 8:30AM - 9:55AM Track 1 (Water Resources) Track Chair: Rob Gailey Speaker Name

Affiliation

Track 2 (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) Track Chair: Leslie Dumas Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Presentation Title

Planning for Recharge

Lessons Learned from GSP Development - A Panel Discussion

Moderator: Jim Strandberg

Moderator: Ali Taghavi Jim Blanke

Woodard & Curran Hydrogeologist

Hydrogeology and Regulation Perspective

O’Laughlin & Paris

Legal and Water Rights Perspective

Duncan MacEwan

ERA Economics

Economics and Water Market Perspective

Jim Beck

Hallmark Group

Policy and Strategy Perspective

Christian Petersen GEI Consultants, Inc.

Expanding Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) in the Sacramento Region: Findings from a Regional ASR Information Study

Dan Stanaway

Brown and Caldwell

Treasure Valley (Idaho) Valerie Kincaid Managed Aquifer Recharge Feasibility Study

M. Sercan Ceyhan

Woodard & Curran

California’s Next Top Model: State-of-theart Tools to Visualize and Apply Integrated Water Resources Model Data

9:55AM-10:05AM 10:05AM-10:35AM

10:35AM-10:55AM

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Break - 7-Minute Stretch and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

GRA Annual Meeting

Abigail Madrone, GRA President

Legislative Update

Brad Herrema, GRA Director & Legislative Committee Co-Chair

Break - Mindful Meditation and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

Tuesday, September 15th Concurrent Sessions | 8:30AM - 9:55AM Track 3 (Contaminants) Track Chair: Rob Willhelm Speaker Name

Affiliation

Track 4 (Hot Topics) Track Chair: Ryan Alward Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Vapor Intrusion

Hot Topics in Groundwater Law: SGMA and Adjudications

Moderator: Rob Wilhelm

Moderator: Brad Herrema

Andrew Campbell

Independent Environmental Engineering Consultant

Design Considerations For The Mitigation of Vapor Intrusion

Nick Mjolsness

Land Science Technologies

Innovative Metalized Film Vapor Barrier Mitigation MonoShield™

Jessica Diaz

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Michele Staples

Jackson Tidus

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Tuesday, September 15th Concurrent Sessions | 11:05AM - 12:30PM Track 1 (Water Resources) Track Chair: Rob Gailey

Track 2 (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) Track Chair: Leslie Dumas

Managed Aquifer Recharge

Modeling/Monitoring/Measuring

Moderator: Rob Gailey

Moderator: Leslie Dumas

Francisco FloresLopez & Daniel Mountjoy

California Department of Water Resources; Sustainable Conservation

Merced River Watershed Flood-Managed Aquifer Recharge Reconnaissance Study: Part 1 - Strategy Overview and Decision Support Tools for Recharge Optimization

Tony Morgan

Daniel B. Stephens

So the Climate Is Changing...Now What?

Karandev Singh & Lisbeth DaBramo

California Department of Water Resources; Woodard & Curran

Merced River Watershed Flood-Managed Aquifer Recharge Reconnaissance Study: Part 2 - Flood-MAR Results, Impacts on the Groundwater System, and Multi-benefits

Nicole Grimm

California State University - East Bay

Comparing ModelComputed Turnover Rates with Isotopic Ages for Sustainable Groundwater Management

Jason Keller

GeoSystems Analysis, Inc.

Managed Aquifer Recharge for Ecological and Agricultural Water Supply Enhancement

Farid Achour

GSI Environmental

A method for SGMA programs to estimate aquifer hydraulic parameters without extracting water

Gus Tolley

Daniel B. Stephens

Streamflow Depletion Analysis for an Intermittent Stream, Scott Valley, CA

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Tuesday, September 15th Concurrent Sessions | 11:05AM - 12:30PM Track 3 (Contaminants) Track Chair: Rob Willhelm

Track 4 (Hot Topics) Track Chair: Ryan Alward

PFAS Treatment

Water Market

Moderator:Rob Wilhelm

Moderator: Ryan Alward Maya Hoholick

California Lutheran University

Abhishek Singh INTERA

Diagnosing Water Well PFAS Issues Using Dynamic Profiling Technology

David Ferguson Kennedy Jenks

William Blomquist Indiana University Fast-Track PFAS Treatment Systems - Case Studies

Cathy Swanson Purolite

Get the PFAS out of the Groundwater! - Cases, Costs, and Comparisons

Audrey Arnao

WestWater Research, LLC

The Fox Canyon Groundwater Pilot: Case Study of a California Water Market

Developing Groundwater Allocations: Findings and Recommendations

California Water Transfer Price Forecast

TUESDAY 4:30PM-6PM THE WELL-CONNECTED HAPPY HOUR Join your GRA friends for a casual gathering in the (virtual) bar!

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Wednesday, September 16th Concurrent Sessions | 8:30AM - 9:55AM Track 1 (Water Resources) Track Chair: Rob Gailey Speaker Name

Affiliation

Track 2 (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) Track Chair: Leslie Dumas Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Quantification

Interconnected SW/GDEs

Moderator: Jim Strandberg

Moderator: Leslie Dumas

Presentation Title

Chin Man W. Mok

GSI Environmental Inc.

Accounting for Uncertainties in Water Management in a Reliability-Based Framework

Ruthie Redmond

The Nature Conservancy

Groundwater Snapshots for Nature

Mesut Cayar

Woodard & Curran

Assessment of Stream-AquiferInteractions Using Models: Sensitivity to Parametrization and Vertical Discretization of Aquifers

Veva Weamer

Wildermuth Environmental, Inc.

Utilizing the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Monitor Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs)

Chin Man W. Mok

GSI Environmental Inc.

Potential Impact of Groundwater Extraction-Induced Subsidence on Infrastructure

Kirk Klausmeyer

The Nature Conservancy

GDE Pulse: Taking the Pulse of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems with Satellites and Groundwater Level Data

Julia Barfield

The Nature Conservancy

Multi-Benefit AgMAR: Saving Birds and Recharging Groundwater on Colusa County Farmland

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Wednesday, September 16th Concurrent Sessions | 8:30AM - 9:55AM Track 3 (Contaminants) Track Chair: Rob Willhelm Speaker Name

Track 4 (Hot Topics) Track Chair: Ryan Alward

Affiliation

Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Water Treatment

Big Data Analytics

Moderator: Rob Wilhelm

Moderator: Clayton Sorenson

Ronit Erlitzki

Greg Gilles

AdEdge Water Treatment Technologies

AdEdge Water Treatment Technologies

Innovative & Simple to Operate Treatment Technologies Like High-Recovery FlowReversal RO are Becoming an Essential Component of Our Plan to Diversify Source Water

Presentation Title

Hiroko Mori Hort

GSI Environmental Inc.

Big-data analytics for the classification of hydrographs

Charles Dunning

WellIntel Inc.

Collection and CloudBased Analysis of Multidimensional Groundwater Resource InFormation Environmental Essential for Effective Management

GSI Environmental Inc.

Thermal NSZD: A Big Data, Internet of Things Approach to Quantify and Monitor Natural Source Zone Depletion (NSZD)

From Pilot to FullScale: Groundwater Well Saved by Creative MultiContaminant Treatment Approach to Remove Clayton Sorensen DBPS

9:55AM-10:05AM

Break - 7-Minute Stretch and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

10:05AM-10:55AM

GRA’s Annual Lifetime Achievement and Kevin J. Neese Awards Presentations

10:55AM-11:05AM

Break - Mindful Meditation and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

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Wednesday, September 16th Concurrent Sessions | 11:05AM - 12:30PM Track 1 (Water Resources) Track Chair: Rob Gailey

Track 2 (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) Track Chair: Leslie Dumas

Creative Management

Allocation/Banking

Moderator: Rob Gailey

Moderator: Leslie Dumas

Lyndsey Bloxom

Water Replenishment District

Capitalizing on Erik Ringelberg Groundwater Supplies & Storage Space Through Brackish Groundwater Remediation and Recycled Water Replenishment

The Freshwater Trust

A Groundwater Marketplace: Harnessing Water Data to Support GSA Water Management from the Field-scale to the Subbasin-scale

Christina Babbitt

Environmental Defense Fund

SGMA Sustainability Aaron Ferguson Goals Drive Innovative Solutions Nicholas Jacobs

Somach Simmons & Dunn

SGMA Isn’t Working - When It’s Time to Adjudicate. Wait, When is it Time?

Dominick Central Coast Blue: Creating a sustainable Amandor groundwater supply during prolonged droughts and combating the threat of seawater intrusion

Woodard & Curran

Groundwater Pumping Allocations – Demand Side Solutions for SGMA Implementation

Enhancing Groundwater Basin Management through MS4 Permit Compliance

EKI Environment & Water, Inc.

SGMA, Water Transfers and Conjunctive Use – Opportunities and Challenges

Michael J Cruikshank

Water Systems Consulting

Carolina Sanchez Wildermuth Environmental, Inc.

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Anona Dutton

Somach Simmons & Dunn

Wednesday, September 16th Concurrent Sessions | 11:05AM - 12:30PM Track 3 (Contaminants) Track Chair: Rob Willhelm

Track 4 (Hot Topics) Track Chair: Ryan Alward

Site Characterization/Visualization

PFAS Treatment and Surface Water Recharge

Moderator: Rob Wilhelm

Moderator: Medina

Barbara Carrera

GSI Environmental

High-Resolution Manmeet Delineation “Meeta� Pannu of Subsurface Heterogeneity with Hydraulic Tomography

Jason Flattery, P.E.

Cascade Environmental

High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) Tools

Jim Depa

Mittelhauser & Associates, a Terracon Company

Using High Resolution Data and 3D Technology to Support Environmental Investigations

Ricardo Medina

Orange County Water District

Impact of Total Organic Carbon Magnitude and Distribution on the Performance of Granulated Activated Carbon Treatments to Remove PFAS from Groundwater

California State Comparison of BenchUniversity, Northridge Scale and Pilot-Scale Systems to Assess the Performance of Adsorbent-Based Treatment Technologies to Remove PFAS from Groundwater

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THURSDAY, September 17th 8:30AM-9:55AM

GroundwaterX - Student & Young Professionals Workshop

9:55AM-10:05AM

Break - 7-Minute Stretch and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

Concurrent Sessions | 10:05AM - 11:30AM Track 2 (Sustainable Groundwater Management Act) Track Chair: Leslie Dumas

Track 1 (Water Resources) Track Chair: Rob Gailey Speaker Name

Affiliation

Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Affiliation

Presentation Title

Topics of Interest

Subsidence

Moderator: Jim Strandberg

Moderator: Leslie Dumas

Lindsey Bunting

GeoSystems Analysis, Low-cost Ephemeral Inc. Streamflow Monitoring to Determine Stormwater Runoff Characteristics for Groundwater Recharge

Rosemary Knight

Stanford University

The Stanford Groundwater Architecture Project: Utilizing Advanced Geophysical and Computational Methods for the Development of Hydrogeologic Conceptual Models

Lauren Handley

LRE Water

A Case for the DataDriven Well Design

Kaelyn Schwartz

Daniel B. Stephens

Subsidence & SGMA Characterizing the Ups and Downs Outside of the Central Valley

Vivek Bedekar

S. S. Papadopulos and Associates, Inc.

Hydrograph Pattern Identification Using Fuzzy Cluster Analysis

Michael Blazevic

Wildermuth Environmental, Inc.

Adaptive Management of Land Subsidence

by Monitoring at High Temporal Frequencies in the Chino Groundwater Basin, California

Amanda Deinhart Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Development of Novel Method for Analyzing Cosmogenic Radioactive Age Tracers Sodium-22 and Sulfur-35 and Applications in Hydrology

11:30AM-11:40AM

Break - 7-Minute Stretch and Stop by the Virtual Exhibit Hall!

THURSDAY 4:30PM-6PM THE WELL-CONNECTED HAPPY HOUR Join your GRA friends for a casual gathering in the (virtual) bar!

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THURSDAY, September 17th

Concurrent Sessions | 10:05AM - 11:30AM Track 3 (Contaminants) Track Chair: Rob Willhelm

Track 4 (Hot Topics) Track Chair: Ryan Alward

Speaker Name

Speaker Name

Affiliation

DTSC Soil Gas Sampling Workshop Installation and Sampling of Soil Vapor Probes - Design and Construction Considerations, Sampling Equipment, and Shrouded Quantitative Leak Testing Using a Tracer Gas

Affiliation

CA Department of Water Resources Hot Topics Moderator: Steven Springhorn Keith Wallace

California Department of Water Resources

Tyler Hatch

California Department of Water Resources

Brett Wyckoff

California Department of Water Resources

Benjamin Gooding

California Department of Water Resources

Moderator: Rob Wilhelm Rob Wilhelm

Hargis + Associates, Inc.

Heidi Hays

Eurofins Air Toxics

Chris Tatum

Cascade Drilling

Theresa Dunham

2020 David Keith Todd Lecturer

Concurrent Sessions |11:40AM - 12:30PM The State’s ThreeGraham Fogg Legged Stool for Improving Groundwater Quality: Porter Cologne, SGMA and the Recycled Water Policy - How do they Work Together?

2020 David Keith Todd Lecturer

Flood-MAR and a Roadmap to Water Resiliency

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STAY TUNED for more info on virtual receptions, branch networking, cocktail demonstrations and even virtual karaoke!

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