Groundwater Asset Management

The Hydrogeology Group of the Geological Society of London has organised a one-day meeting to consider current issues in groundwater asset management on Wednesday 10th September 2008 at Burlington House.

The meeting will consider the following themes:

• Groundwater asset management - strategies and practice
• Operational asset design
• Abstraction borehole performance and condition monitoring
• Techniques for borehole maintenance and rehabilitation
  

The meeting promises to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of current groundwater asset management practice both in the UK and overseas. It will be of interest to hydrogeologists, water resource planners and managers, water utility staff, environmental consultants and contractors servicing the water sector.

Registration costs

Students £5, Fellows £20, Non-members £40, Pay on the door (cheque/cash). Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided. Pre-registration is required for this meeting. To register, send an email entitled ‘Groundwater Asset Management’ to Phil Merrin, United Utilities (phil.merrin@uuplc.co.uk) indicating: (i) name, (ii) affiliation, (iii) Geol Soc membership number (if applicable). Please register by 1st September 2008 to facilitate catering.

Provisional Programme

09:15: Registration and Coffee

10:00: Welcome and Introduction: Phil Merrin (United Utilities)

Session 1: Groundwater asset management

10:15: Optimising the use of groundwater resources in California and England, Julien Harou (UCL)

10:35: WQ constraints on deployable output, Simon Wood/Mike Packman (Atkins/Southern Water)

10:55: Carbon Foot-printing for Groundwater Supply Boreholes, Phil Selby (Mott MacDonald)

11:15: Coffee break

11:35: Optimisation of borehole location for water quality, Brenda Chisla (Sheffield University)

Session 2: Operational experience

11:55: Borehole asset management and asset life prediction, James Glover/Rupert Dixon (Mott MacDonald/AWG)

12:15: Groundwater Asset Management Shropshire Groundwater Scheme, Kevin Voyce (Environment Agency)

12:35: South Staffordshire Water, Groundwater Asset Maintenance Planning for PR09, Matt Hudson (South Staffordshire Water)

12:55: Lunch

Session 3: Groundwater asset design

14:00: Well design and sand pumping in consolidated & semi consolidated aquifers, Andreas Charalambous (Hydrolaw Ltd)

14:20: Borehole design, Microbiological Security of Groundwater Abstraction, Richard Church (Entec)

14:40: Identification & management of sediment issues in groundwater abstraction, Harriet Carlyle (Grontmij)

15:00: Tea break

Session 4: Rehabilitation techniques

15:30: Use of oxalic acid for borehole rehabilitation, David Bennet/Mike Deed (Aquabiotics/Geoquip Ltd)

15:50: An experimental use of hydrogen peroxide in water well rehabilitation, Rick Brassington (Newcastle University)

16:10: Summary, Question/Answer session, Gerd Cachandt/Sarah Beeson (Arup/Mott MacDonald)

16:30 Close

For further details please contact Gerd Cachandt, Phil Merrin or Sarah Beeson.

The talks from the event can be downloaded below: