Specialties
Water Supply and Resilience; Groundwater Basin Management; Well-Field Assessments; Groundwater Quality Investigations; Production Well Siting and Design; Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA); Hydrogeological Characterization; Subsidence Management
Practice Areas
Environmental Management; Water and Natural Resources
Education
BA, Geology and Environmental Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, 2002
Registration
Professional Geologist: California 8546; California Certified Hydrogeologist: CHG 992
Client Service
Public- and private-sector clients seek out Tara for her support with groundwater development projects, water-supply diversification and resilience, basin-wide water management, multi-beneficial project development, water quality characterization, and production well design. Her projects often include regulatory compliance, litigation support, grant funding, and development of adaptive management plans (AMPs).
On behalf of clients, Tara develops and implements AMPs to utilize available water supply while protecting other beneficial uses of water, including for mitigation and minimization of land subsidence, to address Environmental Impact Report (EIR) requirements, for indirect potable reuse of recycled water, and to safeguard resources such as protected fish species and riparian forests. For each of these projects, Tara designs and implements plans that include focused monitoring programs, annual data analysis and reporting to project partners, and mechanisms to update the monitoring programs and implement future mitigation work as needed. In addition, Tara coordinates with technical and nontechnical project partners to facilitate critical water management decisions.
As a consultant, Tara’s passion is to provide clients with practical water solutions that meet project objectives while adding long-term resilience. Tara approaches every project with those principles in mind. No matter whether she is designing new production wells that address groundwater quality concerns and provide long-term production and asset management options, maintaining existing groundwater infrastructure, or installing and monitoring facilities for groundwater management, she develops projects to provide clients with solutions for water supply management.
To advance the state of the practice, Tara has participated in professional organizations such as the Groundwater Resources Association of California (GRAC) and American Water Works Association (AWWA), where she has been involved in the Water Well Technology Committee and given technical presentations for many years.
Contact Tara at TRolfe@geosyntec.com or +1 626-788-4638.
