Community Informed Planning for Multibenefit Recharge Projects through MLRP (Lunch-MAR | May 2024)
The Multibenefit Land Repurposing program has completed its first full year in 2023 and is turning a critical corner – we’re coming out of the “storming” phase and seeing coordinated land repurposing efforts “forming”. This discussion will offer an update on the intention, structure, and status of the program, and expand on the experience of the Kaweah Water District using the program to integrate habitat restoration and community benefits into high impact groundwater recharge projects.
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Understanding and Minimizing Arsenic Mobilization during MAR (Lunch-MAR | April 2024)
While managed aquifer recharge (MAR) offers numerous potential benefits to water supply, geochemical shifts during MAR can mobilize toxic, naturally occurring contaminants from sediments to groundwater, threatening the viability of MAR as a water management strategy. This presentation describes geochemical drivers of arsenic mobilization during MAR using example field studies in California. Additionally, we provide an overview of general guidance developed for the state of Texas to limit arsenic
Engineering With Nature on the Pajaro River for GW Recharge & Flood Protection (Lunch-MAR | March 2024)
Julie Beagle and Dr. Mark Strudley discuss how Engineering With Nature strategies and design elements injected into the design of the Pajaro River at Watsonville levee reconstruction project position the project to achieve multi-benefit flood risk reduction, including enhancement of groundwater recharge. Partnership between local (PRFMA), State (DWR Flood-Mar Group), and federal (USACE) agencies afford the opportunity to use unique design tools, including the EcoFIP toolkit (Ecological Floodpla
