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Lauren Wicks, MS, PG
Staff Hydrogeologist

and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each
and helped with subsequent reports regarding model
Years of Experience: 6 construction and calibration. She helped compile a well
database with locations, construction information, lithologic
Years with GEOSCIENCE: 5 information and water level/water quality data availability.
Support for modeling and reporting activities, and assisted
Education: with the preparation of technical memoranda summarizing
BS, Geology, Cal Poly Pomona model construction, calibration, and predictive scenarios.

BS, Integrated Earth Studies, Cal Poly Pomona Rancho California Water District: Surface and Ground
Water Model of the Murrieta-Temecula Ground Water
MS, Hydrology, University of Idaho Basin
Lauren helped evaluate and report on a systematic model
Professional Registrations: update and refinement process.
California Professional Geologist (No. 9531) Riverside Public Utilities: North Orange Well Field
Evaluation, Well Siting, and Non-Potable Water Supply
Assessment
Lauren helped interpret model results and prepared a
What Lauren brings to the project... technical memorandum summarizing the impacts of new
potable and non-potable wells on the current North Orange
• Experience supporting groundwater models, well field wells.
sustainable yield studies, and calculating water
budgets—help provide more accurate and Chino Basin Desalter Authority: Chino Basin Ground Water
thorough models and studies to inform options Model Update
Lauren helped refine the Chino Basin Ground Water
• Detail oriented —help provide accurate data and Model to evaluate impacts from proposed CDA wells. She
high-quality deliverables also compiled data, updated model files, created model
datasets, and calibrated the groundwater model.
Western Municipal Water District: TDS and Nitrate
Lauren has experience with groundwater and Lumped-Parameter Model for the Riverside and Arlington
environmental investigations performed for numerous Groundwater Basins
municipalities, state agencies, and private clients Lauren helped create a lumped-parameter model to meet
throughout the Southern California region. She performs monitoring and reporting requirements of the groundwater
groundwater flow and transport modeling, hydrogeologic basins and assess compliance under various scenarios.
investigations, groundwater basin and water quality She also helped prepare various technical memorandums
studies, artificial recharge projects, and has experience throughout the modeling process.
in GIS mapping, watershed management, database
development and management. Lauren also supports our East Valley Water District: Wastewater Reclamation Plant
team by developing accurate and complete written reports Engineering Report
and documents, and by performing quality reviews on data. Lauren helped produce technical memorandums

Selected Project Experience summarizing the predicted impacts of recharging recycled
water at various recharge sites as part of the proposed
Sterling Natural Resource Center. The analysis included
San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District: Santa Ana determining the amount of underflow available as diluent
River Integrated Model water, and calculating travel times for recycled water
Lauren is working with our team to use existing recharge and recycled water contribution at nearby
groundwater and surface water models to develop an production wells.
integrated watershed model for the upper Santa Ana River.
The resulting Upper SAR Integrated Model (or Integrated Rancho California Water District: Santa margarita River
SAR Model), will be used to determine what factors may Watershed Groundwater Model Runs & Evaluation
contribute to declines SAR flows, and assess cumulative Lauren helped conduct GSFLOW, soluble transport, and
effects on SAR surface flows and groundwater levels. sustainable yield model runs to prepare a groundwater
model plan.
San Bernardino Municipal Water District: Joint
Groundwater Model for the Rialto-Colton Groundwater
Basin
Lauren prepared a technical memorandum comparing
previous groundwater models of the Rialto-Colton area

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