Water Desalination and Reuse Strategies for New Mexico

September 21-22, 2004, Ruidoso Convention Center

 

WRRI Report No. 336

Conference Proceedings (as one file)

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Contents

Title Page

Table of Contents

Director’s Statement

Water Conference Advisory Committee

Conference Program

Opening Remarks – Senator Pete Domenici

New Mexico’s Brackish Water Program as It Relates to the State Water Plan – John R. D’Antonio, Jr.

National Perspective on Saline Aquifers – Kevin Dennehy, USGS Office of Ground Water

What Is and What Isn’t a “Brackish Ground-Water Resource?” – John Shomaker, John Shomaker and Associates

Hydrology of Saline Ground Water in New Mexico – Rick Huff, USGS

Tularosa Basin National Desalination Research Facility Design and Construction Update – Mike Hightower, Sandia National Laboratories and Tom Jennings, Bureau of Reclamation

Albuquerque Water Reuse Initiatives – John Stomp, City of Albuquerque

Produced Water Treatment Program: A Cooperative Effort – Rick Arnold, NMSU Agricultural Science Center/Farmington

Panel: Water Rights Issues of Produced Water

  • moderated by Bill Hume, Office of the Governor

  • Mark Fesmire, New Mexico Oil Conservation Division

  • Matt Lavery, PNM

  • Paul Saavedra, Office of the State Engineer

  • Frank Yates, Jr., Yates Petroleum Corp.

Concentrate Management Regulations – Karen Menetrey, NM Environment Department

The Science of Concentrate Management – Anthony J. Tarquin, UTEP

Graywater Use in New Mexico – Gary Beatty, NM Environment Department

El Paso’s Well-head Desalting Program – John E. Balliew, El Paso Water Utilities

White Cliffs Mutual Domestic Water Users Association Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment – Eddie Livingston, Livingston Associates, P.C.

El Paso’s Desalination Efforts – Bill Hutchison, El Paso Water Utilities

California Desalination Projects – Jerry Johns & Fawazi Karajeh, California Department of Water Resources

Research Ways to Stretch Western Water Supplies: The Yuma Desalting Plant – Mike Norris and Angela Adams, Bureau of Reclamation

National Desalination Efforts – Frank Leitz, Bureau of Reclamation

Roadmap for National and International Desalination Research – Tom Hinkebein, Sandia National Laboratories

Water Conference Participant List