Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a 3-D, transient, groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) for the El Monte Operable Unit (EMOU) within the San Gabriel Basin in California. Project experience includes litigation support and remedial design. Calibrated model was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2006. Modeling efforts include capture zone analyses and extensive water budget analyses, custom post-processing, 3-D visualization models, vector analyses, and animation models.
Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a solids model for subsurface volume and mass estimation. These efforts supported the development of a contaminant fate and transport model for Launch Complex 34. Modeling efforts focused on simulating reductive dechlorination processes and performing risk analyses based upon cleanup criteria.
Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a contaminant fate and transport model for Launch Complex 39B, utilizing the ART3D interface, simulating reductive dechlorination processes and performing risk analyses based upon cleanup criteria. Presentation of modeling efforts included probability distribution maps and contour maps.
Groundwater Modeling System: Recreation of an existing 3-D groundwater model for the Mobile Launch Pad (MLP)/ Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Pilot Test Model (MODFLOW), including water contour mapping, capture zone analyses (MODPATH) for engineering design, fate and transport analyses simulating conservative tracer tests (MT3-D), and remedial alternatives analysis.
Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a 3-D groundwater (MODFLOW) and fate and transport model (MT3-D) for Launch Complex 39A. Presentation of modeling efforts included water contour mapping and delineation efforts.
Single Well Solutions: Specific capacity tests; aquifer characterization for Launch Complex 39 B, POL, and MLP sites at the Kennedy Space Center.
Aquifer Test: Slug test and pump test analyses; aquifer characterization for Launch Complex 34, 39 B and the MLP/VAB vicinity.
Geographic Information Systems and Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a mass estimation model that was used to develop a 3-D interpretation of creosote contamination within the subsurface. Modeling efforts associated with this project incorporated GMS and ArcScene for solids generation, cross section interpretations, and 3-D animations. Volume estimates were based on the presence/or absence of staining.
Geographic Information Systems (ArcMap and Spatial Analysis): GIS Inventory Reports for Brownfield Designation Zones for the Economic Redevelopment Departments, including priority ranking and potential impact area contour mapping.
Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a one-layer, steady-state, groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) for the purpose of assessing the potential environmental impacts associated with groundwater extraction for the Ely Energy Center, a proposed new power plant for Bureau of Land Management, located in Steptoe Valley, Nevada. This model was developed in support of an Environmental Impact Statement Report prepared for the project. Additional work includes data analysis and visualization, predictive simulations, sensitivity analysis, report generation, and figure preparations. Modeling efforts include drawdown analyses, development of water budgets, 3-D visualization models, and borehole analysis.
Development of a groundwater model using the Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) model to estimate water balances for municipal landfill permitting purposes. This model incorporated weather, soil, and design data and applied solution techniques that accounted for the impacts from surface storage, runoff, infiltration, evapotranspiration, vegetative growth, and soil moisture storage. Additional features including lateral subsurface drainage, leachate recirculation, unsaturated vertical drainage, and leakage through soil, geomembrane, or composite liners.
Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a 3-D groundwater model for the Former Biscayne Commons Landfill, located in North Miami Beach, Florida (MODFLOW), including water contour mapping and capture zone analyses (MODPATH) for engineering design.
Groundwater Modeling System: Development of a solids model to reconstruct shallow and deep conduit systems for water resources purposes. Ambient flow conditions were simulated to analyze potential correlations between groundwater and conduit flow. These studies incorporated remedial design and production well configurations to maximize clean water production for this spring. Geological data was incorporated into the model to assess correlations between stratigraphy and conduit formations.
Groundwater Modeling System and Geographic Information Systems: Development of a 3-D interpretation of resistivity data investigating creosote contamination for a CSX Railroad Site in Jacksonville, Florida, including cross sections, solids modeling, volume estimation, and simulated animations. An innovative approach for estimating impacted media was developed during this investigation that incorporated both GIS and GMS models that contributed to significant savings in project budget.
Groundwater Modeling System: Re-injection well investigations, water contour mapping, and well capture zone analysis.
Geographic Information Systems: Groundwater contour mapping, data analysis, and analytical reporting.
Geographic Information Systems: Designer responsible for a 3-D investigation of reductive chlorination processes in the subsurface, including pie chart mapping, contour mapping, and cross sections.
Groundwater Modeling System & Single Well Solutions: Development of a groundwater model to assess the fate and transport of the principal COCs, including the evaluation of the current remediation system design and possible alternative remedial methods to expedite the cleanup process, including enhanced in-situ bioremediation.
