Water Resources

GZA has expertise and experience in watershed management including water quality, water supply, drainage and flooding, and stormwater and wastewater management.

Addressing concerns at the source before treatment offers cost-effective methods of improving raw water quality control and increasing treatment method efficiency. We work closely with utilities and municipalities to determine the causes of treatment problems and solutions by reservoir management in concert with the supply infrastructure.

GZA has expertise and experience in all aspects of stormwater management, ranging from hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, infrastructure survey, modeling, design and permitting. 

GZA has a successful history of finding, developing and protecting groundwater aquifers and production wells.  We provide turnkey services ranging from exploration to analysis to development and permitting.

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As a direct result of GZA’s efforts, our clients have routinely saved money, been proactive in mitigating their water supply risks, expanded their strategic water supply options and advantages, and bolstered their sustainability initiatives.

GZA’s approach to water distribution and storage balances long-term repair and replacement costs and system reliability, using an asset-management-based and predictive approach to water main replacement and forward-thinking maintenance programs.

GZA has expertise and experience with the design and construction of surface and groundwater treatment systems and regulatory compliance.

GZA provides water supply system managers with the tools and services to optimize their operations.

We are also conducting a very substantial number of permit compliance monitoring programs focused on assessing potential impacts of groundwater withdrawals on local groundwater resources, wetlands, and other environmental concerns. The programs are central to determining the long term sustainability of groundwater resources and also serves as a means to provide early warnings to groundwater resources if there is a concern of possible contaminant transport toward the wells.

GZA's GIS platform enables us to incorporate both hydrogeologic datasets and key socio-economic factors – including areas of particularly critical need, existing infrastructure locations, habitat considerations, and land use requirements, etc. – into the determination of optimal well drilling locations. We are able to predictably identify and incrementally develop new low-cost, low-impact, distributed groundwater resources closer to the point(s) of use than other water supply alternatives. 

We have developed the highest yielding wells on record in many of the regions where we have conducted exploration programs. We are committed to only developing groundwater resources where it is clear that such withdrawals will not adversely impact existing users or the environment. We routinely secure new permits from the applicable regulatory agencies by providing scientific evidence that our withdrawal rates are sustainable, and that the natural resources proximal to developed supplies can be adequately protected and preserved for future generations.
 

As a direct result of GZA’s efforts, our clients have routinely saved money, proactively mitigated their water supply risks, expanded their strategic water supply options and advantages, and bolstered their sustainability initiatives.

GZA incorporates new techniques and applications developed by industry and professional specialists such as New Mexico State University and the NRCS to assist farms and dairies in their efforts to stay current and in compliance with federal and state regulations, and has provided expert support to facilities under environmental scrutiny, whether legal or by agencies.

GZA staff are experienced in all water right processes, and can assist in developing an initial strategy that best suit a client’s needs: from verification of the water right, filing the appropriate application(s), to providing technical and expert witness services if the application results in a hearing or litigation. We help you minimize the risk associated with purchasing offsite water rights by having a clear and comprehensive purchase agreement that clearly states that you are purchasing only the consumptive use rights (or crop irrigation requirement, if irrigation right) approved by state authorities .

Addressing concerns at the source before treatment offers cost-effective methods of improving raw water quality control and increasing treatment method efficiency. We work closely with utilities and municipalities to determine the causes of treatment problems and solutions by reservoir management in concert with the supply infrastructure.

Designing and implementing effective short term and long term groundwater and environmental monitoring programs.