Groundwater Discharge Permit Preparation

GGI’s experienced staff can assist you with all the steps involved in renewal and/or modification of existing groundwater discharge permits or preparation of a new discharge permit application.

In the past two years itself, GGI has helped more than10 dairy producers obtain approved discharge permits from NMED and NDEP.

Our approach to discharge permit projects is science based and data driven and involves you in the whole length of the permitting process. We focus on cost minimization.

Our qualified and experienced discharge permit team:

* Discusses with you the crops and number of animal units you wish to maintain at your dairy for the term of the discharge permit
* Evaluates water quality, soil nutrient status and land application area sufficiency
* Our agronomists perform reverse N uptake and land application area sufficiency calculations
* Our geo-hydrologists determine groundwater flow direction at your dairy and suggest proper locations of monitoring wells
* Our water rights experts determine if you have enough water rights available to grow crops and meet the demands for your parlor.
* If the permit goes to public hearing our technical experts can help you with litigation support

Discharge permit application process

Above all, our cross-disciplinary staffs evaluates if the discharge plan you propose is viable and suggest you cost effective strategies to make the discharge plan viable. Our thorough evaluation of the discharge plan can help you cut your costs by our recommendations on:

* appropriate discharge volume
* minimum number of monitoring wells required
* minimum lagoon size required
* minimum amount of acreage required

It is only after thorough evaluation of the viability of the discharge plan you propose, and discussing with you the pros and cons of the discharge plan and costs involved for the execution of the plan, we finalize the discharge permit application and submit it to designated regulatory agencies.

Therefore our success rate in getting approved discharge permits is very high and our dailry clients know before hand what they are getting into in the next five years