Integrating Groundwater, Science & Engineering
Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers (LSCE) is a water resources engineering and groundwater consulting practice founded in 1980. Operating for over four decades, it integrates hydrogeology, engineering, and scientific methods to address complex groundwater resources, water quality, and water supply challenges. The practice serves water districts, government agencies, agricultural entities, and environmental stakeholders from its offices in California and Idaho, with thousands of completed projects.
SB555 Certified Water Loss Audit Validator
evaluation, development, and management.
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act compliance and Groundwater Sustainability Plan development.
Conjunctive use, Aquifer Storage and Recovery, in-lieu recharge, water banking, and water transfer programs.
Hydrogeologic conceptual models, groundwater-surface water interactions, water budgets, and sustainable yield analyses.
Monitoring plan development, data collection, aquifer testing, and land subsidence interpretation.
EPA Class I deep injection well feasibility, design, and permitting.
Planning, permitting, engineering design, and construction services for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and domestic water supply systems.
Siting, design, drilling oversight, testing, and construction management.
Engineering design, pump station facilities, booster pumps, and system-head operating analysis.
Pumping plant and well efficiency testing, troubleshooting, rehabilitation, and retrofits.
Water treatment and distribution engineering from conceptual planning through startup and construction management.
Arsenic, chromium, salinity, nitrate, iron, and manganese removal technologies, disinfection, and chemical systems.
Water storage tanks, reservoirs, booster pump stations, water mains, and pressure reducing stations.
Water Master Plans, Capital Improvement Plans, Urban Water Management Plans, and SB555 Water Loss Audits.
Environmental compliance and support for water resource development projects.
CEQA/NEPA compliance strategies, mitigation development, and municipal water system permitting.
Hydrogeologic and hydraulic modeling supporting water planning and engineering.
Flow, transport, and groundwater-surface water interaction models.
Distribution system hydraulic modeling and analysis.
Spatial analysis and data systems to support groundwater monitoring and reporting.
Spatial analysis of land use, environmental factors, and hydrogeologic parameters using geographic information systems.
Data collection, management, and reporting workflows.
Water Supply · Water Resources · Environmental & Remediation · Government · Agriculture
Napa County, CA · Water Resources · Client: County of Napa
Development of Groundwater Sustainability Plans and groundwater sustainability planning in Napa County, advancing the hydrogeologic conceptualization of Coast Range geologic history and its influence on present day water resources.
Mountain View, CA · Water Supply · Client: City of Mountain View
Focused well rehabilitation program and site improvements for the municipal drinking water supply system, including hydrogeological and engineering services.
Santa Cruz, CA · Water Supply · Client: City of Santa Cruz
Engineering design and construction oversight for a potable groundwater treatment plant to remove high levels of iron and manganese using modern filtration systems.
Water Supply
Siting, design, and development services for the McLaughlin Well Field.