View the PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Draft MAY 2015
Conference Programme
*Note this is a draft only and
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Sunday
September 20, 2015 (pre-Conference)
07:00 Pre-Conference workshops registration
08:30
Workshop 1: Operations & Maintenance: Pump Operating Rules
10:00
Morning Tea
10:30
Workshop 1 continues
12:30
Lunch / Registration Workshop 2
13:30
Workshop 2: Aquifer Sustainability
15:30
Afternoon break
16:00 - 17:30
12:30 - 18:00
Exhibition set-up
16:00 - 18:00
Workshop 2 continues
Early Conference
Registration
18:00 Welcoming Function
Monday
September 21, 2015
07:00 Conference Registration
Plenary Session
08:30
Opening Ceremony
09:20
Keynote Speaker
Parallel
Sessions
10:00 Morning Tea
10:30
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Groundwater and Service Delivery
Groundwater and Water-Energy-Food
security
Groundwater and Mining
D Burrow
J Conrad
V Aphane
Groundwater dependency and the plight of
Loeriesfontein
Is potato cultivation negatively impacting the
groundwater resources of the Sandveld, Western
Cape?
A predictive study to better protect groundwater at
Underground Coal Gasification site
10:50
C Makoae
A Fallon
L Bredenkamp
11:10
Seasonal Climate Forecasting in Groundwater
Investigating the potential of using groundwater
associated with a ring-dyke to augment the municipal Management: Evidence from Dendron, Limpopo
water supply to Bloemfontein
C Meyer
S Imrie
Hydraulic fracturing and Water Resources:
Separating fact from fiction
R Murray
The use of chemistry, isotopes and gases as
Hydrodynamic and Hydrochemical characterization ‘Best practice’ approach to undertaking detailed
groundwater impact assessment studies for proposed indicators of deep groundwater in the Main Karoo
of groundwater resources of a municipality in
solar energy plants
Basin
Switzerland
11:30
C Roets
Steytlerville Bulk Water Supply
M Luruli
A Decision Support System to Assess Climate
Change Impacts on Rural Communities
K Pietersen
An analysis of the challenges for groundwater
governance during unconventional gas
development in South Africa
11:50
O Yaya
Aquifer vulnerability study of the Federal Capital City,
Abuja Nigeria
K Villholth
Mapping irrigation potential from renewable
groundwater in Africa – a quantitative hydrological
approach
J van Dyk
Groundwater monitoring during an underground
coal gasification process
12:10
P Lee
A case study review of a high tech approach towards
wellfield and aquifer management.
G Ebrahim
D Stroebel
Estimating groundwater availability at catchment scale A Baseline Study of Scarce Groundwater
using streamflow recession and instream flow
Resources in Anticipation of Fracking in the Karoo
requirements of rivers in So
Parallel
Sessions
12:30 Lunch
13:30
13:50
14:10
Exhibitions
Municipal Support
Groundwater in a Green Economy
Groundwater and Mining
K Riemann
S Dzikiti
F Botha
A framework for conjunctive use at local government
level
Comparative use of groundwater by invasive alien
Prosopis spp and co-occurring indigenous V. karroo in
a semi-arid catchment
T Mophatlane
Refinement of a 3D Finite Element Mesh Model, BelaBela, South Africat
L Soltau
Natural water springs in Cape Town - Water use
strategy
Integration of water simulation modelling for water
conservation and demand management in the
mining sector (a case study)
S Fonkem
Simulation of Underground Mine Flooding with
EPANET and MODFLOW
C Gouws
Groundwater as bulk water supply option to an
open pit mine
Panel Discussion
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14:30
H Klein
E Lukas
The North Lee County Reverse Osmosis Water
A management plan towards the flooding of an
Treatment Plant Injection Deep Injection Well Project opencast mine with adjacent underground sections.
Parallel
Sessions
14:50 Afternoon Break
15:40
16:00
Exhibitions & Poster Opening Session
Municipal Support
Young Scientists
Groundwater and Mining
J Cobbing
K Smith
F van Deventer
Policy and pragmatism in South African groundwater
management
Unravelling the complex geohydrological structure of
the Elandsfontein aquifer unit
Panel Discussion
16:20
16:40
18:00 to late
Book Launch / Cocktails
Tuesday
September 22, 2015
Modelling recharge in an opencast coal mining
environment, applying model parameters on a
catchment scale.
T Madlala
J van Niekerk
Application of multivariate statistical analysis to
Water balance calculations in a rehabilitated
investigate the hydrochemistry of groundwater Upper environment
Berg River Catchment
B Bredenkamp
R Mukungo
An approach for groundwater storage-reliability
Numerical model simulation of underground mine
analysis and operating rules for rural areas: Siloam
to determine reliable groundwater inflow
Village case study
predictions
Discussion
R Gebrekristos
Packer Testing and Analytical Modelling For
Groundwater Inflow Estimation for Proposed Shafts
Plenary Session - National Groundwater Strategy
08:30
09:00
09:30
P Hobbs
F Fourie
E Bertram
Where AMD meets Karst, and Humans theorise (speculate?) whilst Nature acts
Introduction to National Groundwater Strategy
Introduction to National Monitoring Programme
Parallel
Sessions
10:00 Tea
Groundwater and the Environment
National Monitoring Programme
National Groundwater Strategy
Ernst Bertram
F Jonck
Fanus Fourie
F Fourie
Cadmium contamination of groundwater in South
Africa - the potential hazard of phosphate fertilizers
The Management of Groundwater resources using
GIS/Cartography splay)
Introduction to National Groundwater Strategy
J Haumann
Investigating the impact of fertilizer spills on
groundwater quality
O Makonto
Physico-Chemical Assessment of Groundwater in the
Orange Water Management Area
M Mukhawana
Panel Discussion
The Groundwater Data Acquisition and Management
Strategy for the Department of Water and Sanitation
C Pickering
Water Monitoring in the Mining Industry: An Overview
L Moussa Antoine
Hydrogeochemical processes in the shallow aquifer of
the Lubumbashi river basin: multivariate statistical
approach
J Zielke
Investigating the influence of fine ash leaching in a
tailings dam on the underlying aquifers
N Vermaak
Mountain Catchment Studies and Catchment
Management
Chairs:
10:30
D Blake
10:50
11:10
11:30
11:50
12:10
Discussion
Discussion
Parallel
Sessions
12:30 Lunch
13:30
Groundwater and the Environment
Monitoring, Data and Information
Management
A Kruger
M Gomo
M Holland
Hydrocarbon plume delineation using a
Hydrogeological and Geophysical approach
Effects of artefacts other than horizontal groundwater
flux on a single-borehole tracer dilution test: Field
evidence
H Klein
An Investigation Of Groundwater Recharge And
Residence Time Using Noble Gases, Tritium, And
Terrigenic Helium
Development of regional groundwater flow models
for the Vaal Gamagara well fields
M Mills
The value (or not) of measuring redox potential in
groundwater: A case study
K Witthueser
Numerical modelling of groundwater contributions
to wetlands
D McGibbon
Flow test analysis and monitoring of the deep
confined peninsula aquifer in Blossoms (Oudtshoorn),
Western Cape, South Africa
J Tanner
The effects of land use change on surface
water/groundwater interactions in the coastal lakes
and wetlands of KwaZulu Natal
13:50
S McKeown
Vapour Intrusion Risk Assessment: Case Studies
using Modelling and Direct Measurement from
Contaminated Sites in South Africa
14:10
K Naude
High resolution site characterisation assessment of a
chlorinated solvent plume in a shallow unconfined
aquifer
W van Biljon
Effects of Tidal Variation on LNAPL distribution in an
aquifer
14:30
Exhibitions & Posters
Groundwater and the Environment
B Mauck
Integrated modelling: a tool for urban groundwater
management on the Cape Flats, Cape Town
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Parallel
Sessions
14:50 Tea
Exhibitions & Posters
Groundwater and Mining
Monitoring, Data and Information
Management
Groundwater and the Environment
15:20
H Coetzee
D Makhokha
N Breedt
15:40
Acid mine drainage in the Witwatersrand: Unanswered A systematic approach to the interpretation of
questions
conductivity anomalies across intrusive dolerite dykes
and sills in the Karoo
L Deysel
K Masindi
An Acid Base Accounting study of the coal-bearing
Using gravity anomalies from GRACE to estimate
formations in the Waterberg coalfield
changes in groundwater storage in the Vaal River
Basin
Contaminant Plume Mapping using Electrical
resistivity method in Northern Namibia
S Muravha
The effect of geology on the mobility and rebound
of light non-aqueous phase liquids
16:00
D Love
Groundwater and mining on the West African shield:
application of mineralogical and weathering profiling
O Dingoko
TEMPEST for groundwater exploration
K Robey
Feasibility of iron and manganese removal by insitu ozonation – Atlantis Aquifer Case Study
16:20
L Mokhahlane
Groundwater chemical evolution at an underground
coal gasification pilot plant in Majuba
A Amadi
Geogenic Influence on Groundwater Chemistry in
parts of Northern Nigeria
16:40
A Huisamen
Hydrogeochemical Evolution of an Opencast Colliery
After Decommissioning – Static vs. Dynamic Prediction
J Zulu
Complementary use of electromagnetic frequency
domain and electroseimic survey methods in
groundwater exploration in Zimbabwe.
Discussion
Discussion
17:00 to 18:00 GWD AGM
19:00 to late
Parallel
Sessions
Wednesday
Conference Dinner
September 23, 2015
Groundwater and the Environment
Groundwater and the Environment
Monitoring, Data and Information
Management
J Davies
E Rambau
M Damons
Contaminated soil and groundwater: Vacuum
Enhanced Recovery as an alternative method
An assessment of the contribution of surface and
Re-inventing the Wheel – The Iterative
subsurface flows to river flows of the Sandspruit in the Development of Groundwater Sustainability in
Berg River Catchment,
Southern Africa.
08:50
V Naidoo
Monitored Natural Attenuation of Inorganic
Constituents: A Case Study in a Karoo Aquifer
R Diamond
Interannual variability in rainfall isotope composition
as a tracer of spring water flow.
L Mokhahlane
Use of Environmental Isotopes to Determine
Hydraulic Connectivity Across the Surrounding
Aquifers at Majuba UCG
09:10
S Mohr
High resolution site characterisation (HRSC) in South
Africa: challenges, successes and lessons learned
G Kramers
Modelling groundwater recharge in the Upper Vaal
River Catchment.
P Nemaxwi
Estimation of Groundwater Recharge Response
from Rainfall Events in a Semi-Arid Fractured
Aquifer: Case study of Quaternary Cathment
09:30
B Masombuka
M Ndlovu
J Wise
Monitored Natural Atteneuation on-sites with different A hydrogeological study of the Kosi Bay lakes system, Decision making with web-based geo-spatial
geological setting
North-Eastern South Africa
databases coupled to groundwater models
09:50
S Israel
Successful field pilot scale nitrate removal using low
technology methods
N Noordien
Characterising surface water-groundwater interactions
in the Voëlvlei (Agulhas Plain), using a multidisciplinary approach
E Ahmed AL-Sayed Ragab
Investigation of the probable infiltration from the
wastewater ponds and its impact on the water
quality of Pleistocene aquifer
10:10
Discussion
B Nyawo
A study of interaction between groundwater and
surface water using environmental isotopes,
hydrochemistry and feacal coliform bacteria
M van Wyk
Groundwater fingerprinting for identifying potential
project risks
08:30
Parallel
Session
s
10:30 Morning Tea
11:00
Case Studies
Exhibitions & Posters
Groundwater and the Environment
Groundwater Governance
N Lefore
R Parsons
K Riemann
Managing Transboundary Groundwater Resources:
The Case of the Ramotswa Aquifer
A scientific method of assessing the groundwater
contribution to lakes and wetlands
Governance and Management of Water Resource
in the SA Context – A Review
11:20
R Sekwele
E Petermann
The UNESCO IHP project "Groundwater Resources
Characterisation of submarine groundwater discharge
Governance in Transboundary Aquifers" (GGRETA) – into False Bay (Western Cape)
Legal and Institutional Aspect
J Odiyo
Incorporating participation in groundwater decision
support systems for water scarce rural areas:
Siloam Village case study
11:40
J Leshomo
Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System
H Seyler
Taking Capture Principle into Practice
T Strydom
Connecting the dots: Groundwater / surface water
interaction along the Letaba River, Limpopo
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12:00
M Demlie
Hydrogeology of the Cedarville Flats primary aquifer,
Upper Umzimvubu River Basin, South Africa
T Shakhane
Integrated system approach to evaluate natural
processes and hydrodynamics linked to groundwatersurface water interaction
12:20
A van Niekerk
C Terrell
Qualitative interpretation of groundwater flow
Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction Study for
distribution within the southern granite supersite of the the Ingula Wetland
Kruger National Park
12:40
M van Wyk
Estimating Recharge in the Ermelo Region of
Mpumalanga by Comparing Different Water Balance
Methods
A Wilke
Awards
S Adams
I Haines
Water Use Registration: A reflection of
Groundwater Governance of the Verlorenvlei
Catchment in the Sandveld
J Weitz
Discussion
Comparitive analyses between LAK3 package and the
high K techniques used for numerical simulation of
lake-aquifer interactions
13:00 Lunch
Plenary Session - Closing Ceremony
14:00
14:20
14:40
A Matshini
Investigating groundwater governance
arrangements for shale gas exploration and
production in the main Karoo Basin, South Africa
Exhibitions & Posters
A fresh look at the National Water Balance
Closing remarks and Farewell
15:00 Tea / End of Conference
Exhibition and Poster Breakdown
16: 00 POST-CONFERENCE HERITAGE TOUR DELEGATES DEPART
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