In this issue: 

Summary of the 30th Biennial Groundwater Conference and GRA’s 24th Annual Meeting 2015: Drought, Water Quality & Sustainability

  1. Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs)
  2. Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
  3. Hexavalent Chromium
  4. Pesticides
  5. Compound Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA)
  6. PCE
  7. TCE
  8. Climate Change
  9. Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)
  10. Irrigation Allowance Index (IAI)
  11. MODFLOW
  12. Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR)
  13. In-situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO)
  14. Best Management Practices (BMPs)

Highlights of GRA’s Symposium on Naturally Occurring Compounds of Regulatory Concern

  1. Areal-Proportions
  2. Hexavalent Chromium
  3. Uranium
  4. Perchlorate
  5. Arsenic
  6. Compound Specific Isotope Analysis
  7. Iodide Uptake Inhibition
  8. Selenium
  9. Nitrate
  10. Tertiary Butyl Alcohol (TBA)

Wells and Words - Part 2 - Yield-Depression Curves for Evaluating Well Development Effectiveness, or Whether to Rehabilitate a Well

  1. Well Rehabilitation
  2. Cooper-Jacob nonequilibrium equation
  3. Theis non-equilibrium well equation
  4. Hydraulic Testing
  5. Drawdown
  6. Transmissivity
  7. Storativity

Driller’s Logs are of Primary Importance

  1. Well Completion Report
  2. Senate Bill 83
  3. Lithologic Logging
  4. Well Construction

Why Should We Care About Data Qualifiers

  1. Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH)
  2. Quantitation Limit
  3. Method Detection Limit
  4. Tentatively Identified Compounds (TICs)
  5. Gas Chromatography
  6. Data Quality Objectives (DQOs)
  7. Wet Extraction Test (WET)

Economic Feasibility of Groundwater Banking on Agricultural Land

  1. Aquifer Replenishment
  2. Percolation Ponds
  3. Orland-Artois Water District
  4. Sacramento Valley
  5. Mass Balance
  6. GIS
  7. Soil Agricultural Groundwater Banking Index

Hydrovisions Winter 2015, Volume 24, Number 4