Dale J. Nyman, PG, 3168 Sherry Dr., Baton Rouge, LA, 70816: nyman7883@gmail.com The Baton Rouge “2000-foot” sand was one of the first aquifers developed in the Baton Rouge Industrial Area and provides insight into the groundwater development of the system. There are 10 aquifers named for their depth in the…
Charles E. Heywood, 2131 Pleasant Hills Ct., Ridgeway, Colo. 81432, cheywood@usgs.gov; John K. Lovelace, 3535 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., Suite 120, Baton Rouge, La. 70816, jlovelac@usgs.gov Groundwater withdrawals have caused saltwater to encroach into freshwater-bearing aquifers beneath Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Groundwater investigations in the 1960s identified a freshwater-saltwater interface located…
Tony Duplican, Executive Director, 3535 South Sherwood Forest Blvd., Suite 137, Baton Rouge, LA 70816, tony@cagwcc.com Due to heavy pumping of certain aquifers within the Capital area, saltwater from the south has moved across the Baton Rouge Fault into some of the fresh water aquifers in East Baton Rouge Parish.…
Navid H. Jafari, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, njafari@lsu.edu Evaluating the field-scale hydraulic conductivity and compressibility of soft organic clays that dominate fluvial-deltaic deposits is important for determining migration of contaminants and magnitude of subsidence. For example, the large concentration of chemical industry and…
Bill Thaman, Freese and Nichols, Inc.10431 Morado Circle, Bldg 5, Ste 300, Austin, Texas 78759 wjt@freese.com; and Michael Turco, General Manager, Harris-Galveston Subsidence District, 1660 West Bay Area Boulevard, Friendswood, Texas 77546, mturco@subsidence.org Significant historical land subsidence, 6-10 feet in some areas, and about 13 feet in the Houston Ship…
Sherwood M. Gagliano, Ph.D., 1260 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802: sgagliano@coastalenv.com, Karen M. Wicker, Ph.D., 1260 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802: kwicker@coastalenv.com The Mississippi River drives one of the largest and most biologically productive ecosystems of North America. The delta ecosystem is an important platform for human activity.…
Pierre Sargent, U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Baton Rouge Office, Suite 120, 3535 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA, 70816: psargent@usgs.gov and Angela L. Collier, U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Baton Rouge Office, Suite 120, 3535 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA…
F. Ryan Clark, The Water Institute of the Gulf, 301 N. Main St., Suite 2000, Baton Rouge, LA 70825, rclark@thewaterinstitute.org, www.thewaterinstitute.org; Scott A. Hemmerling, The Water Institute of the Gulf, 301 N. Main St., Suite 2000, Baton Rouge, LA 70825, shemmerling@thewaterinstitue.org; and Harris C. Bienn, , The Water Institute of…
Terry Emory, City of West Monroe, 303 West Pavilion Drive, West Monroe, Louisiana, 71292: emoryterry@yahoo.com In 1996, city officials in West Monroe noticed an alarming trend: water was being overdrawn from the Sparta Aquifer by eighteen million gallons per day (18MGD) beyond the recharge rate and if this trend was…
Gary M. Hanson, Hydrologist in Residence, Director, Red River Watershed Management Institute, Louisiana State University Shreveport, One University Place, Shreveport, LA, 71115, hansongm@att.net As humans we have learned to control, to a degree, and make beneficial use of water in the built environment. In doing so, we have stressed natural…