Working Groups

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The major technical efforts of the Consortium will be conducted through working groups and their associated Task Committees.  Based on recommendations by the Consortium Membership, the Consortium established the following working groups.  They include:

 


  1. Technology Testing and Evaluation working group whose role is to help identify and coordinate the testing and evaluation of the cost and performance testing of technologies to improve the cost and performance and the overall quality of treated produced water to better support fit-for-purpose reuse.

  2. Water Quality and Risk and Toxicology Working Group whose role is to evaluate and quantify the spatial variation in produced water quality across the state, identify analytical approaches to measure produced water constituents and identify appropriate environmental and human risk and toxicology testing approaches to assess the potential human and ecological risks from the use of treated produced water.

  3. Socio-Economic and Infrastrucutre Planning Group whose role is to focus on a socio-economic cost-benefit analysis tool that supports efforts in both the Permian Basin and the San Juan Basin with the ability to evaluate the impacts of new and emerging applications, and to show Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and state economic benefits of produced water treatment and reuse. Additionally, this group helps identify current and emerging infrastructure need to be considered to support and facilitate fit-for-purpose treatment and reuse of produced water.

  4. Public Education and Outreach whose role is to:

    1. Improving public understanding of consortium activities and research in terms of fit-for-purpose reuse of treated produced water.

    2. Communicating the potential impacts to public and environmental health and the work of the Consortium to address these concerns.

    3. Promoting a behavior change of public to accept treated PW reuse.

    4. Sharing the benefits of water conservation and economic development opportunities in New Mexico that treated PW reuse offers

  5. Produced Water Data Portal whose role it is it:
    1. Coordinate the collection of quarterly raw produced water quality data from SWD facilities in an electronic data delivery (EDD) format compatible with NM Water Data Act.
    2. Coordinate QA/QC of that data and work with GWPC to upgrade NM PW Data Portal to include this water quality data.
    3. Work with GWPC to improve data portal Level 2 GIS layers as proposed by NMED such as seismic areas, current land use and jurisdiction to support compatibility with new DOE Pareto Produced Water Reuse Optimization Model.

 

These five working groups and their associated Task Committees are designed to work in an integrated fashion to address both the technical risks (Infrastructure, Treatment, and Water Quantity and Quality Working Groups) and environmental and ecological risks (Treatment, Risk and Toxicology, and Water Quality Working Groups) for various fit-for-purpose applications (Applications).  Working Groups and their associated Task Committees include interested member representatives from the Technical Steering Committee. These technical representatives are encouraged to be involved in multiple Working Groups and associated Task Committees to ensure that there is coordination and synergy of efforts across all the Working Groups and their associated Task Committees.

The NM-PWRC invites consortium members to express their interest to be on a TSC working group to someone on the Consortium Leadership Team so that we can include you on the working group roster. Each Working Group meets virtually using MS Teams on a regular monthly basis. The schedule of meetings is as follows:

  • Technology Testing and Evaluation | 1st Tuesday of the month | 9 - 10 am MST (10 - 11 am CST)
  • Water Quality and Risk and Toxicology | 1st Monday of the month | 9 - 10 am MST (10  - 11 am CST)
  • Infrastructure and Implementation Planning | 1st Wednesday of the month | 9 - 10 am MST (10  - 11 am CST)
  • Public Education and Outreach | 1st Wednesday of the month | 1:30 - 2:30 pm MST (2:30 - 3:30 pm CST)
  • Produced Water Data Portal | 1st Thursday of the month | 9 - 10 am MST (10 - 11 am CST)