Meeting the water demands of a growing population in arid regions throughout the world, while at the same time protecting water quality are key objectives of Fugro Consultants’ groundwater resources projects. Groundwater modeling, seawater desalination, and wastewater recycling are strategies that depend on the expertise of Fugro’s hydrogeologists.
Groundwater Resources Management
Water management related to urban growth, water conservation, and conjunctive use is accomplished by investigating and evaluating hydrogeologic conditions, calculating the water balance, developing a groundwater model, and using advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and modeling tools to project water use scenarios into the future.
Fugro’s hydrogeologists, soil scientists, geophysicists, as well as water quality and regulatory specialists offer a comprehensive approach to water resources management. We have conducted hundreds of hydrogeologic investigations; basin safe-yield investigations; aquifer storage and recovery projects; water quality evaluations; desalination project feasibility studies; groundwater basin management studies; and individual well design and well field development investigations.
Services include:
Regional Groundwater Basin Analyses
- Current conditions assessment
- Interagency planning
- Water well inventories
- Storage volume analysis
- Water balance studies
- Recharge basin studies
- Integrated regional planning
Groundwater Modeling
- Flow and solute transport
- Seawater intrusion
- Safe yield analyses
- Recharge estimates
Desalination System Feedwater / Discharge
- Saline feedwater supply investigations – onshore and offshore
- Well design feasibility evaluations
- Siting studies and EIR/EA support
- Bathymetric and topographic surveys
- Geotechnical site exploration and design support
- Hydrogeological conceptualization of beach and nearshore
- Groundwater modeling
- Aquifer testing
Aquifer Storage and Recovery
- Injection well design
- Conjunctive use strategies
- Recharge facility location/construction
- Imported and reclaimed water storage and reuse
Water Quality
- Water quality assessment / monitoring
- Contamination studies
Water Well Design / Construction Monitoring
- Well siting, design, well field optimization
- Specifications / construction observation
- Well maintenance and rehabilitation options
- Wellhead protection
- Distance-drawdown relationships, mutual well interference
- Aquifer tests / water level monitoring