Presented By:
Jay Lund, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
David Jordan, PE
Vice President of Water Resources, INTERA Incorporated
Abhishek Singh, PhD, PE
Senior Water Resources Engineer, INTERA Incorporated
INTRODUCTION:
SGMA planning and implementation will require integration of multiple components - hydrologic,
Abstracts:
"Maintaining Technical Coherence in Multi-jurisdictional Basins" - Jay Lund, PhD
Several problems are laid out on technical and conflict problems for aquifers shared by multiple jurisdictions, such as GSAs. A series of technical activities by state and local agencies are then proposed to ease these problems and build more common and public understandings of aquifer characterization and management problems and solutions.
“A Decision-Analysis Approach to Developing a 100-Year Water Plan” - David Jordan, PE
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority successfully applied a decision-analysis-based approach to articulate, develop, and communicate to stakeholders its 100-year water-supply plan, central to which is its groundwater reserve management strategy.
"A Decision Support System for Feasibility Assessment of Conjunctive Use Projects in the San Diego River Basin" - Abhishek Singh, PhD, PE
A Decision Support System (DSS) was utilized to assess a range of conjunctive use projects in the San Diego River Basin. The DSS integrated site-specific data with groundwater/surface water management and operations objectives to identify projects with the highest value for the basin.
SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. Jay Lund is Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California – Davis. He has long enjoyed teaching, research, and engagement on many aspects of theory and practice for water management and policy, usually trying to integrate economics and operations research with traditional engineering. He has become particularly engaged in working on the wide range of water problems in California with many collaborators, and remains enthusiastic about the potential of system analysis and optimization to provide understanding and insights for management and policy. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an Adjunct Fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). In California he was on the Advisory Committee for the 1998 and 2005 California Water Plan Updates, and has served as Convenor of the California Water and Environment Modeling Forum and Chair of California’s Delta Independent Science Board. He has long been involved in applying economic and optimization ideas to provide insights on California’s water problems, including the development and use of the CALVIN model of California’s water supply system. He is a lead author of Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (UC Press 2010) and Managing California’s Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation (PPIC 2011).
Dr. Lund has a B.A. in International Relations and Regional Planning from the University of Delaware (1979) and a BS in Civil Engineering, MA in Geography, and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle). He has advised over 130 graduate students, including 13 who are faculty at research universities globally, and has over 400 publications and reports.
Mr. David Jordan, PE is a Vice President and Principal Hydrogeologist with INTERA and leads their Water Resources Line of Business nationwide. He is active with Water Resources projects throughout California and the Western United States. He recently led the successful development of a 100-year water plan, dubbed Water 2120, for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (Water Authority) in New Mexico. INTERA was the prime contractor and Mr. Jordan was the overall project manager and led a team comprised of multiple consultants and senior Water Authority staff. The plan was unanimously approved by the Water Authority’s Governing Board. The plan was a result of six years of work – the first four spent developing a decision support tool (DST) for evaluating demand and supply, and the last two years applying that tool to evaluate demand scenarios and supply alternatives. Water 2120 looked at the current water situation in Albuquerque and projected the community’s needs based on various scenarios of climate variability and population growth. The Plan built on the Water Authority’s past planning successes with conservation and the addition of surface water to the supply portfolio, both of which have allowed significant recovery of the aquifer that was previously the sole source of supply. The Plan is based on making prudent future investments in conservation, ASR, stormwater capture, watershed restoration, and wastewater reuse (recycling).
MODERATOR BIO:
Dr. Abhishek Singh has over 15 years of research and consulting experience in the areas of water resources planning and management, hydrologic modeling (surface water and groundwater), risk and uncertainty analyses, optimization techniques, geographic information systems (GIS), and data analytics. Dr. Singh earned his MS and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As INTERA’s Manager of California Operations, Dr. Singh oversees water resources projects for Southern California water agencies and utilities. His projects focus on modeling complex hydrogeologic systems and surface-water/groundwater interactions, groundwater planning under SGMA, mitigation against seawater intrusion, reclamation of brackish groundwater, remediation of contaminated groundwater, and evaluation of climate change impacts on water resources. Dr. Singh also provides a variety of permitting and regulatory support to water agencies.
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