Aquifer and Regional Groundwater Studies
Groundwater is a valuable resource whose availability must be assessed and consumption managed. Groundwater resource evaluation is frequently used to assess future development potential, municipal water supply plans, wellhead protection strategies and private services lot sizes. Because of the complexities involved in managing this resource, those responsible for solving groundwater supply problems and evaluating regional hydrogeologic conditions and needs require proven expertise and technology.
Intera has solved many groundwater resource problems for municipal, provincial and federal water suppliers, as well as commercial and industrial clients. Intera’s services focus on providing predictions of the future hydrologic system conditions needed to make sound decisions regarding groundwater resource management using state-of-the-art data acquisition and modeling technology.
Intera’s hydrogeologists and water resource engineers are experienced in evaluating and characterizing local and regional groundwater flow systems and groundwater supplies using remote sensing and geophysical methods, physical and chemical groundwater and aquifer testing and analysis methods, and groundwater flow modeling. These studies are often completed and managed with a geographic information system.
Our groundwater resource evaluation services include:
- Remote sensing including aerial photography, airborne geophysics and Landsat imagery to map watersheds
- Groundwater modeling, surface water modeling and integrated groundwater-surface water modeling
- Well hydraulic testing and interpretation to estimate aquifer and aquitard hydraulic properties
- Design and implementation of groundwater monitoring systems for deep regional groundwater system characterization, particularly in fractured bedrock settings
- Use of aqueous geochemical and isotopic methods to characterize source, age, evolution and mixing of groundwater systems
- Groundwater resource studies in support of development applications on private services
- Watershed-based assessments of effects of development on regional groundwater resources
- Regional groundwater and aquifer mapping, aquifer vulnerability mapping and groundwater use assessments
- Custom ArcGIS, MS Access database and Visual Basic application development
Intera News & Updates
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22/03/2010 Intera wins 3-year contract for gas transport modelling of the Lasgit Experiment (Large Scale Gas Injection Test).
12/02/2010
3 years and 5000 metres later: drilling at DGR is now complete.
25/02/2010
Dr. Robert Walsh provides mView and TOUGH2 training to Nippon-Koei Research Division in Tsukuba-shi, Japan.
28/01/2010
New Website released.
