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June 26-27, 2001
Richmond, Virginia

Agenda


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Day 1 - June 26, 2001
8:00 - 8:15 Arrive
8:15 - 8:30 Welcome and introductory remarks (PDF file - 43 KB) Ward Staubitz
8:30 - 8:50 The role of the Ground-Water Resources Program in Piedmont/Blue Ridge fractured rock regional studies (PDF file - 214 KB) Bill Cunningham
8:50 - 9:10 Ground-water Issues confronting the USEPA in the region
(PDF file - 77 KB)
Rick Rogers
9:10 - 9:30 Ground-water issues confronting local water-resource planners & managers (PDF file - 1.43 MB) David Hirschman
9:30 - 10:00 Break
Current and Past Investigations
10:00 - 10:30 Aquifer susceptibility in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge of Virginia
(PDF file - 1.21 MB)
David Nelms
10:30 - 11:00 Base-flow characteristics of streams in the region (PDF file - 500 KB) Don Hayes
11:00 - 11:30 Local versus regional approach in fractured rock studies: Lawrenceville Ga. and North Carolina Piedmont studies (PDF file - 1.88 MB) Melinda Chapman
11:30 - 12:00 Modeling in fractured-terranes: D.C. Metro Red Line case study Earl Greene
12:00 - 12:30 Saprolite and its role in recharge to the ground-water system
(PDF file - 683 KB)
Milan Pavich
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Techniques of Investigation
13:30 - 14:00 The role of geologic mapping in hydrologic investigations (PDF file - 3.19 MB) Bill Burton
14:00 - 14:30 Geophysics at the borehole and cross-borehole scale (PDF file - 4.20 MB) Carole Johnson
14:30 - 15:00 3-D water-level contouring: Site in New Jersey Pierre Lacombe
15:00 - 15:30 Some uses of environmental tracers in fractured rock (PDF file - 726 KB) Niel Plummer
15:30 - 16:00 Hydrologic characterization and regional ground-water modeling in fractured rock aquifers: Synthesizing heterogeneity and scale (PDF file - 1.71 MB) Allen Shapiro

Day 2 - June 27, 2001
8:00 - 8:15 Arrive
8:15 - 10:30 Define ground-water issues in the Piedmont/Blue Ridge region Group
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Possible approach--Overview of Southwest Ground-Water Resources Project David Nelms
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 Science plan design for the region Group
15:30 - 16:30 Future directions--Where do we go from here? Group
16:30 -   Adjourn

 


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