Expert Witness Services – Water
Expert Witness Services
Triterra provides expert witness services to legal and insurance clients faced with a wide range of water and groundwater issues. Water has always been our most vital resource. Today, as demand for water resources increases, water and groundwater issues are often at the core of disputes ranging from flooding, not enough water to contamination. Our team of scientists possesses the education and experience to support litigation and evaluate claims for damage arising from water and groundwater issues.
Providing Expertise
Water issues can be complex and are not always easily understood by non-professionals. We pride ourselves on our communication skills and focus on making the technical issues easily understandable. Our results are further communicated through graphics, models, and animations where appropriate.
Our staff’s experience includes:
- Providing expert witness water testimony in Federal District and State Courts.
- Previous experience as a federal regulator with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and research with U.S. Geological Survey.
- Extensive experience managing and performing hydrogeologic studies, remedial investigations, and feasibility studies at industrial and commercial facilities, public works, landfills, underground storage tank sites, and construction projects.
- Teaching geology, hydrology, physical science, landscape management, alternative energy audits, GIS, environmental management, and geothermal energy courses at a local community college.
Our expert witness water services have been utilized by legal and insurance firms. Triterra staff has served as expert witnesses for a variety of applications, including:
- Groundwater contamination:
Hydrocarbon and chlorinated hydrocarbon - residential and municipal water supplies
Salt storage – municipal water supplies
Nitrate – municipal water supplies
Impact of zoning changes upon area water quality
Bacterial contamination of groundwater in karst area
Class V injection wells - Too much or too little groundwater:
Changes to surface water drainage causing building damage by groundwater
Dewatering impact of mining upon building foundation integrity
Changes in groundwater levels due to sewer line construction-flooding
Lake dewatering spoil piles causing waste water treatment system failure - Water Wells:
Impact of irrigation wells upon neighbors
Improper well construction - Lake or river elevation increase:
Lake front property building and structural damage
Lake front forest damage
Improper drainage ditch design causing flooding - Changes to surface water drainage:
Flooding of property due to neighbor changes of land use
Flooding due to construction modifying runoff
Construction in a flood plain - Permits:
NPDES permit challenge for peat mining from bogs
County water well permits for irrigation wells near trout streams
Landfill permit for construction of new facility-hydrology
Producing Results
When retaining Triterra experts, you get more than an individual expert, you get an expert who is supported by a team that is capable of thoroughly investigating complex environmental issues. Our investigations can range from on-site evaluations to detailed geochemical and hydrologic modeling. Because our experts have a comprehensive understanding of water issues we are able to communicate our results in a clear and effective manner.
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Avery Lake Investigation where the lake level was raised causing building structural damage.
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