NWRA 2007 Annual Conference

FINAL NWRA 2007 Conference program and abstracts

Newmont Mining Corporation

The Newmont Mining Corporation is a leading gold producer with operations on five continents. Newmont is also engaged in the exploration for and acquisition of gold properties in some of the world’s best gold districts.

Vidler Water Company

The Vidler Water Company (“Vidler”) is a private-sector water resource company focused on the development of permanent and reliable water supplies for end users in the arid southwestern United States. The primary strategy of the company is to locate, aggregate, develop and convert water rights from highly fragmented agricultural markets to emerging municipal and industrial uses. This process requires a knowledgeable, sustained effort, as well as political risk, financial commitment and a working familiarity with water law. Vidler’s management team has a proven track record with many years of collective experience allowing the company to command the sound supply-anddemand forecasting, legal expertise, political acumen, negotiating skills and environmental planning capabilities necessary to assemble a successful water resource rights portfolio. Vidler intends to expand its operations in order to become a leading private water resource asset company in the western United States.

Virgin Valley Water District

The Virgin Valley Water District serves the water needs of the Mesquite and Bunkerville communities. We are developing this website as one of our many efforts to ensure that we keep you up-to-date on water issues. This site is under development and we will be continually adding and updating with new information.

Barrick Goldstrike

Barrick is a leading international gold mining company, with a portfolio of 26 operating mines and seven advanced exploration and development projects located across four continents, and a large land position on the world’s best exploration belts.

ECO:LOGIC

ECO:LOGIC Engineering is an environmental consulting firm specializing exclusively in the lifecycle of municipal water and wastewater infrastructure.

HDR Engineering

HDR (hdrinc.com) is an employee-owned architectural, engineering and consulting firm that excels at managing complex projects and solving challenges for clients. More than 5,700 professionals, including architects, engineers, consultants, scientists, planners and construction managers, in more than 140 locations worldwide, pool their strengths to provide solutions beyond the scope of traditional A/E/C firms. HDR is No. 17 in the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms rankings for 2006.

Broadbent & Associates, Inc.

Broadbent & Associates, Inc. (BAI), founded in 1987, is an established environmental, water resource, and civil engineering firm with experience throughout the southwestern United States (primarily Nevada, Arizona, California, and Texas). Our multi-disciplinary team is composed of engineers, hydrogeologists, and geologists with professional registrations covering the Western United States. Since the company’s founding, BAI has consistently and successfully applied its corporate philosophy of providing clientele with efficient, cost effective, and scientifically based solutions. For more information, please visit our website at www.broadbentinc.com.

Central Nevada Water Authority

The Central Nevada Regional Water Authority is a unit of local government that collaboratively and proactively tackles water resource issues common to communities in Nevada’s rural interior. The mission of the Central Nevada Regional Water Authority is to prepare communities in central and eastern Nevada for sound water-resource decisions that promote prosperous economies and strong civic institutions in a healthy natural environment. Member counties are working together to prepare a comprehensive database of water level measurements for the Central Region, to create a regional water resource plan and to build an information clearinghouse to support local government decision making. The member counties are Churchill County, Elko County, Esmeralda County, Eureka County, Lander County, Nye County and White Pine County.

ENTRIX, Inc.

ENTRIX is a Environmental and Natural Resource Management Consulting Firm known for strategic planning and designing innovative approaches to effectively manage environmental resources. ENTRIX employs over 300 professionals in 24 offices specializing in water resources, biological and ecological sciences, ecological and human-health risk, ecological toxicology, natural resource economics, ecosystem restoration, natural resource damage assessments, natural resource management, hydrology, geology, engineering, statistics, and Geographic Information System (GIS).

Black & Veatch MBK Engineers Resource Concepts, Inc. Turnipseed Engineering, Ltd.

Interflow Hydrology Mahannah & Assoc ENTRIX, Inc. Broadbent & Associates, Inc.

Nevada Climate Change Panel

	20th and 21st Century hydro-climatic change in the Sierra and Nevada	Michael Dettinger, USGS
	Nevada Climate Change – Update	Kelly T. Redmond

Session 1

	Results of a 15 year aquifer test, Lone Tree Mine, North Central Nevada	Jay Fischer, Newmont Mining Corporation
	Estimating Natural Ground-Water Discharge in Selected Areas of the Colorado Regional Ground-Water Flow System, Southern Nevada, and Parts of Utah and Arizona, 2003-2006	Guy A. DeMeo, U.S. Geological Survey, Nevada Water Science Center
	Ultra Long Range Distributed Temperature Sensing: A Fundamentally New Tool in the Hydrologist’s Tool Box	Scott W. Tyler, Ph.D., Department of Geological Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno

Session 2

	Water in the Urban Southwest: An Updated Analysis of Water Use in Albuquerque, Las Vegas Valley, and Tucson	Taryn Hutchins-Cabibi, Western Resource Advocates
	Longley Lane Water Treatment Facility	Rick Warner, P.E., Senior Licensed Engineer, Washoe County Department of Water Resources, John Hulett, Washoe County Department of Water Resources

Session 4

	Characterization of Springs in White Pine, Lincoln and Clark Counties, Nevada	David J. Donovan, Gavin M. Kistinger, Stephen Y. Acheampong, Ph.D., Southern Nevada Water Authority
	Implementation of consumptive use restrictions on water rights transfers in Utah	Jerry Olds, P.E., Utah State Engineer, Utah Division of Water Rights
	Evapotranspiration and Consumptive Irrigation Water Requirements for Idaho
	2007 Legislation and Policy Update

Session 5

Water Quality Modeling in the Las Vegas Wash

Willard Pack, P.E., Black & Veatch, Doug Karafa, Clean Water Coalition

Session 6

The Intersection of Environmental Compliance and Water Rights Processes on the Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development Project

Lisa Luptowitz, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Dan Netcher, Bureau of Land Management

Other

	Integrated Water Resources Planning in the Carson River Basin	Edwin James, Carson Water Subconservancy District
	Resource Planning Adaptability	Jeff Johnson, SNWA
	Distributed Temperature Sensing using Fiber Optics