2020 Annual Forum

09/28/2020 - 10/1/2020
Virtual Conference

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Tuesday, Sept. 29
Wednesday, Sept. 30

U.S. EPA Update: Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water

Director
Jennifer McLain

Produced Water: State & National Initiatives

Trends in Produced Water Reuse - National Initiatives, Standards, and Markets

New Mexico Produced Water Research Consortium

Mike Hightower

Bureau of Reclamation Produced Water Research

US Bureau of Reclamation

Katie Guerra

Promoting Beneficial Reuse of Produced Water through Research

The Water Research Foundation

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Aquifer Storage & Recovery, Managed Aquifer Recharge, Enhanced Aquifer Recharge

GWPC ASR / MAR Workgroup Overview

Texas Council on Environmental Quality U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ERG

Chi Ho Sham, Karen Feret, Chi Ho Sham

Evaluating Surface water and Groundwater Network in Red Butte Watershed to Obtain Sustainable Groundwater Yield and Availability

Utah State University

Saeid Masoudiashtiani

Aquifer Recharge Using Class V Injection Wells in Texas: Implementation of the New 2020 TCEQ Rules

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Lorrie Council & Carol Dye

Water Reuse: Research Showcase

Implications of Regional Produced Water Use in Gasoline Production Water Footprint

Argonne National Laboratory

May Wu, Ph.D.

Class I Injection

Case Studies: Evaluating Well Integrity with Multi-Arm Caliper and Magnetic Resonance Logs

SCS Engineers

Monte Markley

Morning Grind: National Groundwater Monitoring Network

National Groundwater Monitoring Network
US Geological Survey
Daryll Pope

Seismicity: Regulatory Management & Mitigation

EXCHANGE PROJECT - Potential Induced Seismicity Guide: A Resource of Technical and Regulatory Considerations Associated with Fluid Injection

Ambiunt Environmental and Regulatory, LLC

Ed Steele

FSP Modeling and Its Use in the Permitting / Protested Hearing Process

ALL Consulting

Reed Davis

Using Seismic Monitoring to Increase Permitted SWD Injection Rates in Texas

ALL Consulting

Nate Alleman

Groundwater Data Management

Overview of WaterSTAR: GWPC’s Data Management System for Groundwater Quantity and Quality

GWPC

Dan Yates & Joe Lee

Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) use of WaterSTAR: The Nebraska Groundwater Clearinghouse

Nebraska Department of Energy & Environment

Ryan Chapman/Dave Miesbach

Transition to WaterSTAR for Groundwater Quality Data Management

Wyoming DEQ
Nicole Twing & Steve Girt

Carbon Capture and Storage / Class VI Underground Injection

Case Study on Methods to Leverage Operational Data from Class II UIC Wells to Evaluate Class VI CO2 Injection Well Performance

Battelle Energy Division

Joel Sminchak

Safe Geologic Storage of Captured CO2: Two Decades of DOE’s Carbon Storage R&D Program in Review

US Department of Energy
Darin Damiani

Exploring the UIC and NPDES Program Nexus

ASR and the NPDES Connection

Oklahoma DEQ
Shellie Chard

Class II Injection

Understanding the Injection Strategy and Formation Capacity Variation

Advantek Waste Management Services, LLC

Omar Abou-Sayed

Overview of Recent Class II UIC State Peer Reviews

GWPC

Mike Nickolaus

Enhanced Evaporation Technologies - An Effective Tool to Hedge Against Regulatory Driven Reductions in Injection Rates

ALL Consulting
Mark Faucher

Source Water Protection: Current Opportunities

Source Water Protection and the Farm Bill

National Resources Conservation Service

Jimmy Bramblett

Source Water Protection: Leveraging New (&Old) Resources for Planning and Implementation

US EPA

Karen Wirth

Implementation of New Source Water Protection Efforts in Ohio (NRCS, asset management, PFAS, SWAP investments)

Ohio EPA

Amy Klei