Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling

EKI is an industry leader in developing and applying state-of-the-art numerical groundwater flow and transport models and accompanying data pipelines, visualizations, and decision support tools to simulate integrated subsurface and surface hydrologic systems and gain insight into issues of interest to our clients. EKI’s team, composed of licensed hydrogeologists, civil/environmental engineers, data scientists, and certified water resources experts collaborate to build, calibrate, visualize, analyze, apply and deliver groundwater models and associated work products to help tackle various challenges associated with water supply sustainability planning, adaptive management frameworks, project feasibility studies, and hydrologic / climate change uncertainty and risk analyses.

EKI’s staff has vast experience in: 

Developing cloud computation workflows, data pipelines, and web-hosting resources to enable high-throughput, data intensive, and on-demand modeling efforts in support of the above objectives.

• Building, calibrating, and applying regional integrated hydrologic models to support historical and predictive assessments of watershed-scale, interconnected surface water and groundwater conditions in response to changing hydrology, land use, water supply and demand, and groundwater management frameworks. We are particularly experienced in supporting Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) ongoing compliance and implementation efforts in response to the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in this regard.
• Conducting groundwater solute and contaminant fate and transport modeling evaluations in support of water supply risk assessments, remediation system feasibility studies and designs, and the development and compliance with human health and environmental standards and regulations.
• Conducting water supply management planning evaluations and risk assessments to inform the development, allocation, conservation, and adaptive management of water supplies to meet current and future demands in response to ongoing population growth, land use and climate change, and water scarcity challenges.
• Performing land subsidence modeling evaluations to identify current and future risks of ground surface deformation in response to groundwater extraction and management trends and their associated impacts on critical infrastructure.
• Performing hydrologic uncertainty and climate change impacts analysis to identify the risks of drought and climate change conditions on water supply conditions and their socioeconomic implications and to inform associated strategies for improving water supply resiliency and drought preparedness.
• Building integrated decision support tools and dashboards to enable groundwater management practitioners and local stakeholders’ ongoing access, use, application, refinement of groundwater modeling tools in support of adaptive groundwater management and decision-making processes; and
• Developing cloud computation workflows, data pipelines, and web-hosting resources to enable high-throughput, data intensive, and on-demand modeling efforts in support of the above objectives.