Groundwater Hydrology
Western Water & Land offers extensive experience in the assessment and analysis of groundwater resources. We are skilled in all aspects of groundwater characterization, development, and management. The groundwater solutions we provide are based on our experience and combined geologic and hydrologic expertise. In addition, the natural inter-relationship between surface water and groundwater requires a thorough understanding of processes in both fields. Our hydrologists have well-balanced experience in both surface water and groundwater applications, stemming from traditional instruction and training at distinguished universities and many years of practical application.
Our groundwater hydrology services range from well design and installation to complex hydrogeologic interpretations and comprehensive groundwater modeling. Our hydrologists have designed and overseen installation of groundwater wells for a variety of purposes, including water-quality monitoring, water-level monitoring, hydrologic testing, potable water source, and industrial water source. The breadth of our well design and installation oversight experience ranges shallow alluvial wells designed for domestic use to complex arrays of deep wells targeting specific aquifers for water supply and/or hydrologic testing.
Our expertise is commonly used to characterize groundwater systems with respect to the hydrologic parameters, water chemistry, groundwater flow behaviors (direction and velocity), groundwater age and genesis, and recharge and discharge mechanisms. We have implemented field characterization projects utilizing multifaceted hydraulic testing and analysis techniques, including horizontal and vertical hydraulic conductivity testing. In addition, we have implemented multi-well tests with packer systems and downhole geophysics to characterize fracture zones.
Western Water & Land complements its well design/installation and field testing experience with the use of various quantitative predictive tools and numerical computer models for groundwater resources and contamination studies. These industry-accepted models range from simple lumped-parameter, one-dimensional balance models to complex, multidimensional flow and transport models. Western Water & Land has considerable experience in developing, documenting, and applying quantitative hydrologic/hydrogeologic models. Our experienced staff has the judgment to apply the appropriate model for any given scenario. Examples of applied programs include groundwater flow and contaminant transport models such as HYDRUS™, Groundwater Vistas™, Visual MODFLOW™, and Groundwater Modeling System (GMS™); aqueous geochemical assessment models such as PHREEQC; and two-dimensional contaminant transport models such as TDAST™.
Water chemistry analysis is a critical component of almost every groundwater investigation. Western Water & Land has broad experience in geochemical sampling, analysis, and data interpretation. The knowledge of geochemical relationships allows Western Water & Land to design complete yet practical water quality monitoring programs. Coupled with our water chemistry expertise, we offer complete database development and management services. Using our expertise in managing environmental data, we have developed project-specific databases using common office software (MS Access and Excel) that not only store project data, but also perform data QA/QC, statistical analyses, run pre-programmed queries, compare results against regulatory standards, and provide custom reports that retrieve desired data in a matter of minutes.
Our groundwater hydrology services range from well design and installation to complex hydrogeologic interpretations and comprehensive groundwater modeling. Our hydrologists have designed and overseen installation of groundwater wells for a variety of purposes, including water-quality monitoring, water-level monitoring, hydrologic testing, potable water source, and industrial water source. The breadth of our well design and installation oversight experience ranges shallow alluvial wells designed for domestic use to complex arrays of deep wells targeting specific aquifers for water supply and/or hydrologic testing.
Our expertise is commonly used to characterize groundwater systems with respect to the hydrologic parameters, water chemistry, groundwater flow behaviors (direction and velocity), groundwater age and genesis, and recharge and discharge mechanisms. We have implemented field characterization projects utilizing multifaceted hydraulic testing and analysis techniques, including horizontal and vertical hydraulic conductivity testing. In addition, we have implemented multi-well tests with packer systems and downhole geophysics to characterize fracture zones.
Western Water & Land complements its well design/installation and field testing experience with the use of various quantitative predictive tools and numerical computer models for groundwater resources and contamination studies. These industry-accepted models range from simple lumped-parameter, one-dimensional balance models to complex, multidimensional flow and transport models. Western Water & Land has considerable experience in developing, documenting, and applying quantitative hydrologic/hydrogeologic models. Our experienced staff has the judgment to apply the appropriate model for any given scenario. Examples of applied programs include groundwater flow and contaminant transport models such as HYDRUS™, Groundwater Vistas™, Visual MODFLOW™, and Groundwater Modeling System (GMS™); aqueous geochemical assessment models such as PHREEQC; and two-dimensional contaminant transport models such as TDAST™.
Water chemistry analysis is a critical component of almost every groundwater investigation. Western Water & Land has broad experience in geochemical sampling, analysis, and data interpretation. The knowledge of geochemical relationships allows Western Water & Land to design complete yet practical water quality monitoring programs. Coupled with our water chemistry expertise, we offer complete database development and management services. Using our expertise in managing environmental data, we have developed project-specific databases using common office software (MS Access and Excel) that not only store project data, but also perform data QA/QC, statistical analyses, run pre-programmed queries, compare results against regulatory standards, and provide custom reports that retrieve desired data in a matter of minutes.
Western Water & Land provides the following groundwater hydrology services:
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