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BEAUMONT BASIN WATERMASTER
MEMORANDUM NO. 14-12
Date: December 3, 2014
From: Joseph Zoba, Treasurer
Subject: Authorization for ALDA to Prepare a Water Level Monitoring
Assessment Plan
Recommendation: That the Watermaster Committee authorizes ALDA Inc. to conduct
an assessment of existing monitoring wells and to develop a cost
estimate to repair, maintain, and collect water level data during
Calendar Year 2015.
In fiscal year 2006/07, the Beaumont Basin Watermaster initiated a groundwater level
monitoring program. The initial objectives of the program were to determine the location
of subsurface groundwater barriers and to collect consistent, long-term groundwater level
information for its own use and for the use of Watermaster Parties. Initially, 10 monitoring
wells were equipped with pressure transducers to record water levels every 15 minutes;
the number of monitoring wells was later increased to 13. From the program inception
through sometime in 2011, Wildermuth Environmental Inc. was tasked to maintain the
monitoring equipment and to download the water level information on a quarterly basis.
Water level equipment has not been maintained since.
As part of the long-term management of the groundwater basin, it is important to collect
and maintain adequate static long-term water level information at various locations in the
basin. Information collected would be used to determine the amount of water in storage
and to evaluate water levels decline or recovery. Further, water level information at these
monitoring wells should be documented and presented at each Watermaster meeting.
This program should be re-established as part of the long-term management of the
groundwater basin. The first step to achieving this objective is to authorize ALDA to
conduct an assessment of the existing monitoring equipment to determine whether
equipment should be replaced, repaired, and/or updated including a cost esti mate to bring
every monitoring well and equipment to working conditions. The cost estimate should
also include the cost to maintain the equipment and download the water level information
at regular intervals.
This initial step could be conducted under ALDA’s Task Order No. 4, which has been
designated for On-Call technical support. This task order has an upper limit of $20,000.00
of which $4,100.00 or 20.50 percent of the total have been spent.
Beaumont Basin Watermaster Meeting - December 3 - Page 13 of 71
MEMORANDUM NO. 14-12
Date: December 3, 2014
From: Joseph Zoba, Treasurer
Subject: Authorization for ALDA to Prepare a Water Level Monitoring
Assessment Plan
Recommendation: That the Watermaster Committee authorizes ALDA Inc. to conduct
an assessment of existing monitoring wells and to develop a cost
estimate to repair, maintain, and collect water level data during
Calendar Year 2015.
In fiscal year 2006/07, the Beaumont Basin Watermaster initiated a groundwater level
monitoring program. The initial objectives of the program were to determine the location
of subsurface groundwater barriers and to collect consistent, long-term groundwater level
information for its own use and for the use of Watermaster Parties. Initially, 10 monitoring
wells were equipped with pressure transducers to record water levels every 15 minutes;
the number of monitoring wells was later increased to 13. From the program inception
through sometime in 2011, Wildermuth Environmental Inc. was tasked to maintain the
monitoring equipment and to download the water level information on a quarterly basis.
Water level equipment has not been maintained since.
As part of the long-term management of the groundwater basin, it is important to collect
and maintain adequate static long-term water level information at various locations in the
basin. Information collected would be used to determine the amount of water in storage
and to evaluate water levels decline or recovery. Further, water level information at these
monitoring wells should be documented and presented at each Watermaster meeting.
This program should be re-established as part of the long-term management of the
groundwater basin. The first step to achieving this objective is to authorize ALDA to
conduct an assessment of the existing monitoring equipment to determine whether
equipment should be replaced, repaired, and/or updated including a cost esti mate to bring
every monitoring well and equipment to working conditions. The cost estimate should
also include the cost to maintain the equipment and download the water level information
at regular intervals.
This initial step could be conducted under ALDA’s Task Order No. 4, which has been
designated for On-Call technical support. This task order has an upper limit of $20,000.00
of which $4,100.00 or 20.50 percent of the total have been spent.
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