Grantee Research Project Results
2023 Progress Report: A knowledge-to-implementation framework for Enhanced Aquifer Recharge
EPA Grant Number: R840463Title: A knowledge-to-implementation framework for Enhanced Aquifer Recharge
Investigators: Kiparsky, Michael , Harter, Thomas , Fisher, Andrew T , Bruno, Ellen , Dahlke, Helen , Owen, Dave
Institution: University of California - Berkeley , University of California Davis , University of California - Santa Cruz , University of California- Hasting
EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H
Project Period: September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025
Project Period Covered by this Report: September 1, 2022 through August 31,2023
Project Amount: $1,999,998
RFA: Life-Cycle Analysis to Support Cost-Effective Enhanced Aquifer Recharge Request for Applications (RFA) (2022) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Water Quality
Objective:
Contribute to the nation’s water-related human, environmental, and economic well-being by removing barriers, developing tools, and providing knowledge in service of implementation of EAR.
Progress Summary:
- Identified interconnections between pillars by developing an outline of our EAR Lifecycle Map. This now captures a mature and robust structure that supports the construction and articulation of conceptual bridges between geochemical, legal, and economic topics.
- Drafted several written sections, figures, tables, and lists of figures/tables to be created.
- Produced a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of the Recharge Net Metering (ReNeM) program which uses incentive payments to encourage construction and operation of a series of EAR systems on private land.
Future Activities:
- Onboard one postdoctoral scholar to primarily assist the economics pillar and hire and onboard a second postdoctoral scholar to augment the geochemical team’s efforts.
- Narrow to a select list of priority EAR case studies for further exploration.
- Undertake engagement centered around case study development and research.
- Attend conferences to present on this EAR project.
- Produce a preliminary risk assessment tool.
- Refine a knowledge database of geologic, water quality and physico-chemical criteria and their interaction and dependencies to be considered for different EAR types and human and environmental health concerns.
- Produce further in-depth analysis of additional key legal topics.
- Identify priority topics for legal decision support guide development.
- Complete a robust economics literature review to develop a repository of existing data on possible values to attach to variables within a CBA and life-cycle assessment of EAR, noting the metadata for these values.
- Develop a draft methodology for quantifying aspects of EAR not typically expressed in numerical terms but that nonetheless have bearing on EAR project development.
Journal Articles on this Report : 1 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Bruce M, Sherman L, Bruno E, Fisher AT, Kiparsky M. Recharge net metering (ReNeM) is a novel, cost-effective management strategy to incentivize groundwater recharge. Nature Water 2023;1(10):855-63. |
R840463 (2023) R840463 (2024) |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR); Infiltration; Groundwater recharge; Interdisciplinary; Innovation; Incentives; Public policy; Pollution prevention; Law; Economics of groundwater recharge; Water resources; Environmental policyProgress and Final Reports:
Original AbstractThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.