Water Quality
KMEA offers extensive expertise and experience in providing water quality consulting services in a variety of settings, from local creek assessments to regional and watershed scale projects affecting multiple water bodies, and for a variety of projects, including water supply, wastewater, stormwater, and land development.
Our services include:
Water Supply Well Installation / Decommissioning
- Design support for water well construction
- Geologic and hydrogeologic studies
- Permitting and oversight agency support
- Pilot well evaluations and pump test coordination and support
- Preliminary research on potential site contamination
- Preparation of well log and other production records
- Procurement and oversight of qualified drilling companies and equipment
- Underground utility clearance and mark-out coordination
- Water well and associated infrastructure decommissioning
- Water well sampling and testing
- Well siting
- Wellhead maintenance
Planning, Data Analysis, and Reporting
- Annual compliance reports
- Data quality assurance/ quality control (QA/QC) review and interpretation
- Physical parameter testing/chemical evaluations, emerging contaminants (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS)
- Quarterly, semi-annual, and annual monitoring reports
- Sampling and Analysis Plans (SAPs)
- Sustainability plans
- Water Quality Improvement Plans (WQIPs)
Stormwater Services
Inspections
- Annual Comprehensive Site Compliance Evaluations (ACSCEs)
- Construction site management inspections
- Monthly Visual Observations (MVOs) during dry weather
- Non-Stormwater Discharge Visual Observations (NSWDVOs)
- Quarterly Industrial Facility Visual Inspections (QIFVIs)
- Stormwater (wet weather) Discharge Visual Observations (SWDVOs)
Planning and Reporting
- Annual industrial stormwater program reports
- Exceedance Response Action 1 and 2 reports and background determinations
- Jurisdictional Runoff Management Plans (JRMPs)
- Quarterly, semi-annual, and annual monitoring reports
- Stormwater Management Plans (SWMPs)
- Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs) – Industrial and Construction
- Water Quality Improvement Plans (WQIPs)
- Watershed management plans, including stream restoration plans
Monitoring and Data Analysis
- Construction site sampling
- Data quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) review
- Monitoring data management
- Procurement and coordination with laboratories
- Regulatory compliance evaluation
- Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP)/monitoring program development
- Stormwater, surface water, wastewater, and point source sampling
Project Support
Inspections
- Computer aided drafting (CAD)
- Geographic information system (GIS)
- Permit renewal/application
- Professional Engineer design support
- Professional Geologist support
- Qualified Industrial Stormwater Practitioner (QISP), Qualified SWPPP Designer (QSD), and Qualified SWPPP Practitioner (QSP) support
- Regulatory tracking
- Technical writing