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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