AMEC Geomatrix provides strong technical support to water purveyors, landowners, mining interests, and water agencies in developing and protecting water rights. Our key personnel are experienced in the technical aspects of assessment of overdraft conditions, basin definition, water budgets, and research. We also assist water rights attorneys in developing the principal elements of cases in basin adjudication matters and serve as expert witnesses at trial on those issues. AMEC Geomatrix professionals are at the forefront of emerging water-rights issues, including assessment of rights to water recharged to a basin, rights to groundwater storage, groundwater-surface water interactions, “percolating water” issues, reclaimed water use, groundwater return flow calculations, and assessments of potential for sale of water rights in adjudicated basins.

KEY SERVICES

• Groundwater basin assessments
• Identification of basin boundaries for overdraft assessment
• Groundwater basin modeling
• Overdraft assessment
• Water budgets
• Recharge facilities and operations
• Strategic and long-range water-rights planning
• Water rights evaluations and optimization analyses
• Water conservation and drought planning and implementation
• Well field evaluations
• Groundwater recharge for optimum basin management
• Objective based decision analysis for water rights planning
• State and Federal certifications of water sources
• Identity studies for springs and spring-water sources

RELATED SERVICES

• Hydrogeologic investigations
• Research on water rights
• Aquifer testing and analysis
• Expert testimony and litigation support
• Strategic analysis of water rights issues