Services

Todd Groundwater provides the full range of water-related services: from groundwater planning, development, management, and protection to water resources management and litigation support.
Photo of Skypark, Scotts Valley

Planning

  • Groundwater Management Plans
  • Water Supply Assessments
  • Environmental Impact Reports/Hydrogeology
  • Urban Water Management Plans

Photo of wellhead equipment at Hayfield drilling site H-15P

Development

  • Well siting and design
  • Well field design and optimization
  • Alluvial and bedrock aquifers
  • Aquifer testing
  • Basin characterization

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Management

  • Recycled water recharge impacts, permitting and IPR
  • Managed aquifer recharge
  • Groundwater banking/Conjunctive use
  • Safe yield/perennial yield
  • Water balance
  • Monitoring programs

Illustration of seawater intrusion and protection barriers

Protection

  • Seawater intrusion
  • Deep well injection
  • Fracking impacts
  • Industrial site releases
  • Salt and nutrient management plans
  • Geochemical analysis
  • Sensitivity and vulnerability studies

Modeled flow paths superimposed on an aerial photo
Modeled flow paths

Modeling

  • Groundwater, surface water, and vadose zone numerical modeling
  • Flow and solute transport modeling
  • MODFLOW, FEFLOW, GSFLOW, FEMFLOW, PEST, WASP, AQTESOLV

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Litigation Support

  • Water rights/adjudication
  • Allocation of responsibility
  • Timing of contaminant release
  • Forensic geochemistry