INTERA’s Travis Zielke, CGWP, Senior Hydrogeologist, and Reid Polmanteer, PG, Senior Hydrogeologist, will co-present at the American Ground Water Trust’s (AGWT) Colorado Groundwater Conference, themed “Everything Aquifers and Groundwater Management”, to be held October 10-11, 2023, in Denver, Colorado. The INTERA presentation will take place on Tuesday, October 10 at 10:30 am and is entitled, “ASR – From Local to Regional”. This year the conference is showcasing topical and/or controversial groundwater issues and will help to facilitate information sharing among landowners, groundwater end-users, regulators, management agencies, scientists, engineers, lawyers, and citizens who have economic or environmental interests in water resources. For more details and to register, visit: https://agwt.org/civicrm/event/info?id=364&reset=1
INTERAns to Present the 10th TOUGH Symposium
INTERA will be attending the 10th TOUGH Symposium organized by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on September 18-20th, 2023 in Berkeley, California. The symposium focuses on the enhancements and applications of the TOUGH family of codes. INTERA’s Keurfon Luu, Geoscientist, will give a short course on Toughio, a Python library for pre-processing and post-processing TOUGH simulations, on Wednesday, Sep. 20th from 1PM – 4PM. Additionally, INTERA’s Leila Saberi, Hydrogeologist, co-authored a presentation entitled, “Evaluating the Impacts of Unsaturated Groundwater Flow Around Deposits of Coal Combustion Product”.
September 19, 2023 – John Ellis to present at AEG 66th Annual Meeting
INTERA’s John Ellis, Principal Hydrogeologist, will be presenting at the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) 66th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, held September 19-24, 2023. Mr. Ellis’ presentation will take place at 8:40 am on Friday, September 22 during Technical Session #14, Land Subsidence Symposium, Part I, and is entitled, “The Land Surface—Groundwater Nexus: A Case Study on the Brownwood Subdivision, the Science, and Why It Matters”. The abstract for the presentation is provided below.
To learn more about the meeting and technical sessions, visit: https://www.aegannualmeeting.org/
The Land Surface—Groundwater Nexus: A Case Study on the Brownwood Subdivision, the Science, and Why It Matters
The plight of Brownwood, a suburb in Baytown, Texas, gained national attention in the 1960s and 1970s after four hurricanes and three tropical storms caused repeated widespread flooding and eventually the demise of the neighborhood. Although the suburb was abandoned in 1983 after Hurricane Alicia, the roots of the problem began more than 60 years prior. The devastating flooding between 1961 and 1983 was only partly due to the series of storms that struck the neighborhood. In the background, the subdivision had been irreversibly slipping into the sea year after year. This subsidence began slowly with little notice by the residents and surrounding community. However, by 1959 subsidence had left the neighborhood perilously close to sea level and largely sealed the fate of the suburb—before construction was complete. At the peak of the subsidence rate between 1971 and 1973, the suburb was subsiding nearly half a foot per year—the greatest subsidence rate ever recorded in the greater Houston area. This is the story of Brownwood with a discussion on the implications for the greater Houston area.
John Ellis to present at AEG 66th Annual Meeting
INTERA’s John Ellis, Principal Hydrogeologist, will be presenting at the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) 66th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, held September 19-24, 2023. Mr. Ellis’ presentation will take place at 8:40 am on Friday, September 22 during Technical Session #14, Land Subsidence Symposium, Part I, and is entitled, “The Land Surface—Groundwater Nexus: A Case Study on the Brownwood Subdivision, the Science, and Why It Matters”. The abstract for the presentation is provided below.
To learn more about the meeting and technical sessions, visit: https://www.aegannualmeeting.org/
The Land Surface—Groundwater Nexus: A Case Study on the Brownwood Subdivision, the Science, and Why It Matters
The plight of Brownwood, a suburb in Baytown, Texas, gained national attention in the 1960s and 1970s after four hurricanes and three tropical storms caused repeated widespread flooding and eventually the demise of the neighborhood. Although the suburb was abandoned in 1983 after Hurricane Alicia, the roots of the problem began more than 60 years prior. The devastating flooding between 1961 and 1983 was only partly due to the series of storms that struck the neighborhood. In the background, the subdivision had been irreversibly slipping into the sea year after year. This subsidence began slowly with little notice by the residents and surrounding community. However, by 1959 subsidence had left the neighborhood perilously close to sea level and largely sealed the fate of the suburb—before construction was complete. At the peak of the subsidence rate between 1971 and 1973, the suburb was subsiding nearly half a foot per year—the greatest subsidence rate ever recorded in the greater Houston area. This is the story of Brownwood with a discussion on the implications for the greater Houston area.
Dan Haddock Relocates to Sacramento
In support of INTERA’s continued growth in expertise in Northern California, our Director of Water Utility Services and Principal Engineer, Dan Haddock, PE, has relocated to Sacramento. From there, Dan will continue to support INTERA’s key water agency and utility clients locally and nationwide with water resource planning, supply development, and risk management services. Dan is a former Engineering Manager for multiple water and wastewater utility systems, and he has direct knowledge of utility operations and management needs, including planning, capital investment program management, support for operations, regulatory compliance, and water rates. Dan’s recent project experience includes water resiliency master planning and decision support, local and regional water supply development, managing risks to water supplies from PFAS and other contaminants, and water reuse via groundwater replenishment.
September 13, 2023 – INTERAns to Present and Moderate at the Sixth Annual Western Groundwater Congress
INTERA’s Steven Humphrey, Senior Hydrogeologist, Neil Deeds, Vice President and Principal Water Resources Engineer, Kait Palys, Hydrogeologist, Abhishek Singh, President, Water Supply and Water Resources and Principal Water Resources Engineer, Trey Driscoll, Principal Hydrogeologist, and Ryan Alward, Senior Hydrogeologist, will be presenting, serving as panelists, and moderating at the 6th Annual Western Groundwater Congress on September 12th – 14th, hosted by the Groundwater Resources Association (GRA). The theme of the conference this year is, “The Future of Groundwater is YOU”. The conference will give attendees the chance to hear from a diverse group of speakers, panelists, communities of interest, and experts in the groundwater industry and beyond in an effort to bring everyone to the table. Conference participants will not only get the chance to discuss our industry’s most pressing issues, but more importantly, discuss how we can solve these issues collectively. To explore the agenda and to find INTERA’s speakers and panelists, visit: https://www.grac.org/events/514/