Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR)

SSP&A developed a groundwater flow model covering the western portion of the Washington Water Resources Inventory Area 1 in Whatcom County.

SSP&A has designed sampling and analysis plans to determine groundwater and basalt chemistry, performed geochemical reactive transport modeling to predict the types and consequences of chemical reactions during ASR operations, and identified mitigation measures in cases where chemical incompatibilities between recharge water and basalt have been identified.

ASR is a water resource management strategy used in central California to make use of a source water, such as spring snowmelt that flows in rivers and canals.