PROGRAM and ABSTRACTS of the 8 th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium April 26–28, 2011 Hotel Murano Tacoma, Washington GENERAL SCHEDULE Date Activity Monday FieldTrip1:LateQuaternaryGeomorphicReworkingofthe th April25 PugetLowlandsDownstreamofMountRainier:Implicationsfor PeopleandSalmonLivingwiththeRivers(allday) Tuesday FirstDayofSymposium: PlatformPresentations(allday) th April26 LunchProvided ExhibitsandPosters EveningPosterSessionandReception Wednesday SecondDayofSymposium: PlatformPresentations(allday) th April27 LunchProvided ExhibitsandPosters AfternoonPanels: 5AReclaimedWater 6AStormwater FieldTrip2: CoastalGeologyofTacomaAreaDinnerCruise Thursday ThirdDayofSymposium: PlatformPresentations(morning) th April28 Workshop1:CriticalThinkingintheInterpretationofPumping Tests(allday) Workshop2:WellDrillerandEcologyWellReportDatabase Workshop(allday) FieldTrip3:GroundwaterͲSurfaceWaterInteractions(afternoon) FieldTrip4:WaterTreatmentSystemsinTacoma(afternoon) Friday FieldTrip5:HydrogeologyofBeerandWineCountryinthe th April29 YakimaValley(day1) Saturday FieldTrip5:HydrogeologyofBeerandWineCountryinthe th April30 YakimaValley(day2) ║ SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS ║ Bronze Level Sponsors Associated Earth Sciences, Inc. www.aesgeo.com Pacifi c Groundwater Group www.pgwg.com Golder Associates Inc. www.golder.com Robinson Noble, Inc. Hanna Instruments www.robinson-noble.com www.hannainst.com GeoEngineers, Inc. www.geoengineers.com Hach Hydromet www.hachhydromet.com Shannon & Wilson, Inc www.shannonwilson.com ║ SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS ║ Platinum Sponsor Pacifi c Northwest Nati onal Laboratory www.pnl.gov Gold Sponsor Aspect Consulti ng www.aspectconsulti ng.com Silver Sponsors Landau Associates www.landauinc.com Kennedy/Jenks Consultants www.kennedyjenks.com CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME elcome to the 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium! We are pleased to relocate this year’s Symposium to the newly renovated Hotel Murano. The Hotel Murano off ers an upscale meeti ng place Wwith beauti ful mountain and water views, and is surrounded by a wide variety of dining, shopping, and museums. The meeti ng rooms and faciliti es within the Hotel Murano are the perfect size to provide the inti mate setti ng needed to facilitate interacti on among our att endees. This year’s technical program consists of 59 platf orm and 22 poster presentati ons covering all aspects of hydrogeology, water resources management, and water quality. Specifi c topics include Water Rights and Policy, Environmental Contaminati on and Characterizati on, Innovati ve Remediati on Technologies, and Groundwater and Surface Water Interacti ons. These will be supplemented with two panels on Reclaimed Water and Stormwater Impacts on Groundwater Quality. New to the Symposium this year is a technical session covering geological carbon sequestrati on acti viti es within Washington State. The 2011 Steering Committ ee has pulled together fi ve exciti ng fi eld trips, ranging from Coastal Geology of the Tacoma Area to Hydrogeology of Beer and Wine Country in the Yakima Valley. Three workshops will be presented, including Criti cal Thinking in the Interpretati on of Pumping Tests, a tutorial on Ecology’s EIM Database, and a Well Driller and Ecology Well Report Database Session, which can be used to earn conti nuing educati on credits in Washington and Oregon. We are delighted to have three disti nguished keynote speakers: Dr. Timothy Scheibe, Dr. Estella Atekwana, and Dr. Eric Steig. Dr. Scheibe, Pacifi c Northwest Nati onal Laboratory, is the 2010 Henry Darcy Disti nguished Lecturer and a leader in the characterizati on and numerical simulati on of natural subsurface heterogeneity. Dr. Atekwana, the Clyde Wheeler Sun Chair Professor at the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University, is an expert in geophysical studies of geomicrobiology processes, and helped pioneer the new sub-discipline of biogeophysics. Dr. Steig is the Director of the Quaternary Research Center at the University of Washington and is a nati onally recognized leader in stable isotope geochemistry. Please take ti me to visit our Exhibitors, who off er a wide variety of state-of-the-art data collecti on, analysis, and reporti ng soluti ons. Our Sponsors deserve a special Thank You during these especially diffi cult economic ti mes. Through their generosity, our sponsorship goals were exceeded and the Symposium conti nues to be able to off er this meeti ng at a very aff ordable price. Please join us in thanking and supporti ng our Sponsors listed on the back cover of the Program. On behalf of the 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium Steering Committ ee and myself, Welcome! We hope you will have a producti ve and enjoyable few days at the Symposium, and that you will make plans to join us again in 2013. Sincerely, Chris F. Brown 2011 Symposium Chair Pacifi c Northwest Nati onal Laboratory 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium i KEY LOCATIONS Session Rooms Exhibits / Coffee Registration / Sponsors Lunches Posters ii 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME . i HOTEL MURANO FLOORPLANS . .ii TABLE OF CONTENTS . iii STEERING COMMITTEE . 1 PROGRAM SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE . 2 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Timothy D. Scheibe . 5 Estella Atekwana . 6 Eric J. Steig . 7 PANEL DESCRIPTIONS . 8 ORAL ABSTRACTS . 10 POSTER ABSTRACTS . 70 WORKSHOPS & FIELD TRIPS . 93 PRESENTERS INDEX . 98 EXHIBITORS . 104 SPONSORS . .Back Cover 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium iii STEERING COMMITEE (left to right) Sandy Williamson, Sue Kahle, Joel Purdy, Donna Buxton, Mark Freshley, Bob Mitchell, Andy Gendaszek, Chris Brown, Laurie Morgan, Heidi Bullock, Michelle Valenta. Christopher Brown Pacifi c Northwest Nati onal Laboratory, Chair ee Heidi Bullock Landau Associates Inc, Offi cer at Large tt Donna Buxton City of Olympia, Secretary Sandra Caldwell Washington Department of Ecology, Committ ee at Large Mark Freshley Pacifi c Northwest Nati onal Laboratory, Offi cer at Large Andy Gendaszek U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center, Field Trip Coordinator Margo Gillaspy Skagit County, Committ ee at Large Ken Johnson U.S. Geological Survey, Committ ee at Large Sue Kahle U.S. Geological Survey, Vice Chair and 2009 Chair Laura Klasner Washington Department of Ecology, Committ ee at Large Marcia Knadle U.S. EPA Region 10, Committ ee at Large Robert Miller Robert D Miller Consulti ng Inc, Committ ee at Large Robert Mitchell Western Washington University, Offi cer at Large Laurie Morgan Washington Department of Ecology, Committ ee at Large Christi ne Neumiller Washington Department of Ecology, Offi cer at Large John Pearch Washington Department of Ecology, Committ ee at Large Joel Purdy GeoEngineers, Offi cer at Large Patricia Shanley Washington Department of Ecology, Committ ee at Large Jason Shira Washington Department of Ecology, Committ ee at Large Gary Stoyka Skagit County, Committ ee at Large Michelle Valenta Pacifi c Northwest Nati onal Laboratory, Treasurer Gary Walvatne Hahn and Associates, Inc., Environmental Consultants, Committ ee at Large 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium Steering Commi Steering Symposium Hydrogeology 8th Washington Sandy Williamson U.S. Geological Survey, Reti red, 2003 Chair Jan Kvamme UW Conference Management Mary Jane Shirakawa University of Washington www.uwconferences.org 8th Washington Hydrogeology Symposium 1 2 Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:30 AM Check-in and Registration (Venice Foyer) Opening Session: Welcome, Opening Remarks (Venice 2 & 3) 9:00 AM Keynote 1 - Timothy D. Scheibe, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laborabory - Quantifying Flow and Reactive Transport in the Heterogeneous Subsurface Environment: From Pores to Porous Media and Facies to Aquifers 10:15 AM Refreshment Break | Exhibits (Venice 4) 10:45 AM 1A - Flow and Transport Modeling (Venice 2) 1B - Water Inventory Modeling (Venice 3) A Reactive Transport Model of Mercury Fate in Sediment River-Aquifer Exchanges in the Yakima River Basin, Washington Brad Bessinger, S.S. Papadopulos & Associates John Vaccaro, U.S. Geological Survey The Pitfalls of "Plug and Chug" Modeling Evidence for Hydrogeologic Compartmentalization in the Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) Joseph Caggiano, Washington State Department of Ecology Kevin Lindsey, GSI Water Solutions, Inc. SESSION Modeling Groundwater Behavior Using FRACMAN and FeFLOW at the Buckhorn Mountain Gold Mine 1 Interpretation of Aquifer System Responses to a Long-Term Basin-Wide Aquifer Test in the Palouse Basin B Todd Hoffman, Golder Associates of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho Katie Moran, University of Idaho Incorporation of Baseflow Component in the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model Anurag Srivastava, Washington State University Constructing and Calibrating Large Models: Lessons from the Yakima River Basin Groundwater Flow Model: Matt Bachmann, U.S. Geological Survey 12:15 PM Hosted Luncheon (Bicentennial Pavilion) 1:45 PM 2A - Modeling/Data Management (Venice 1) 2B - Predicting Climate Change (Venice 2) 2C- Water Rights and Policy (Venice 3) Water Demand Forecast Model Development in Spokane County, WA: Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Groundwater Resources of Information Management System for Water Right Mitigation Mike Hermanson, Spokane County the Columbia River Basin Compliance – City of North Bend Vashon-Maury Island Volunteer Data Collection Effort John Vaccaro, U.S. Geological Survey Alyssa Neir, Golder Associates Inc. SESSION Modeling the Effects of Climate Change on Snowpack and Well Construction Regulations in Washington 2 Eric Ferguson, King County DNRP