EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Jill Haizlip's professional experience dates back to 1982 in the fields of environmental geochemistry, forensic geochemistry, hydrogeochemistry and applied aqueous geochemistry on a variety of environmental assessment, water resource assessment and development, and hydrogeologic projects. Her expertise has been applied frequently in the investigation of groundwater contamination, assessment, development, and maintenance of water resources and hydrothermal power generation and in urban redevelopment and construction. In addition, she is an expert in data quality evaluation, contaminant source characterization and waste characterization, particularly as it relates to hazardous waste management, handling, and disposal.

 

EXPERTISE

City of Richmond/Department of Transportation and Public Works

Eng v. City of Richmond

City of Richmond v. Broadline Corporation et al.

• Provided litigation support and expert testimony in deposition and court for the City of Richmond in two cases involving litigation over the responsibility of environmental impairment of property acquired by the City for roadway construction. Litigation support included providing the technical basis determining the source and nature of contamination, the cost of remediation and the time of contamination relative to the property transaction. In one case the City was successful and in the other case the case against the City was dropped.

City of Redwood City-Redevelopment Agency

Eminent Domain Actions for Affordable Housing Project

Eminent Domain Actions for Franklin Street Development

• Provided litigation support in preparation for acquisition of environmentally impaired properties by right of eminent domain including providing defensible cost estimates for environmental impacts to property values including remediation costs and long term liabilities. Will support the Condemnation attorneys and the Agency throughout the acquisition process including providing expert testimony regarding the environmental condition of the properties.

Calpine Corporation and Siskiyou County Air Pollution Control District

Pit River Tribe, Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defense and Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center v. Siskiyou County Air Pollution Control District, Calpine Siskiyou Geothermal Partners, L.L.P. and Calpine Corporation.

• Providing technical support regarding hydrothermal systems, and the potential environmental impacts of geothermal exploration, development and operations of geothermal wellfield and power plant. Provided technical support during the permitting process and during appeal hearings including expert testimony regarding air quality impacts of the geothermal power plant in an appeal hearing on the Appeal of Permit to Operate GPP No. 1 -Siskiyou County Air Pollution Control Hearing Board.

Selected Environmental Geochemistry and Hydrogeochemisty Projects

Department of Energy, Sourfriere Energy, Inc., Mendocino Beverage Company, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, City of Calistoga, Bechtel, CalEnergy International, Amoseas Indonesia, Inc.

• Performed test design, data collection, evaluation of aqueous geochemistry for the purposes of assessing water resource availability, water quality characterization, aquifer distinction, and interaction of surface waters, groundwater aquifers, plus or minus thermal or mineral waters in numerous hydrological systems.
  
  

Sonoma County Water Agency

• Performed hydrogeochemical analysis of pilot testing of aquifer storage and recovery (AQSR), Russian River Valley, and water quality limitations for AQSR feasibility study in Sonoma Valley. Provided technical approach to water treatment of drinking water supplied by groundwater wells impacted by hydrogen sulfide.
  
  

Calpine Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Hewlett Packard, City of Richmond

• Applied aqueous geochemistry to the transport of chemicals for the purpose of evaluating potential contaminant transport in surface and groundwater, waste characterization, baseline metal concentrations related to environmental site characterization.

Selected Soil and Groundwater Contamination Investigations and Hazardous Waste Management Projects

City of Redwood City, Sonoma County Department of Transportation and Public Works, CalEnergy, FPL Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Calpine, Hewlett Packard

• Designed and performed environmental site characterization and investigations of potentially contaminated and/or contaminate soil and groundwater, including QA/QC, regulatory compliance, environmental liability assessment for due diligence and/or site closure, construction waste management, and water resource evaluation.


• Provided scientific approach, project management, QA/QC, and data evaluation for geochemical aspects of a soil and groundwater investigation and remedial design (an RI, FS and HRA) for a high technology site in Palo Alto, California. Organic and inorganic soil and groundwater chemistry, managing and QA/QC of sampling and analyses, conceptual and numerical hydrogeologic modeling, interacting with regulators, establishing background metals concentrations in soil and groundwater, and assessing the extent of soil and groundwater contamination from multiple contaminant and multiple sources, data QA/QC and database management and confirmation and background sampling for closure of underground chemical storage tanks.
  
  
• Evaluated physical and chemical characteristics of solid waste disposal and the potential impact to groundwater and surface water resources of a proposed unclassified waste management unit for calculating site-specific "designated level" Waste Classification limits, Sonoma County, California.
  
  
• Performed third-party review of remediation system of a fractured bedrock groundwater aquifer contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents and highly reducing chemical wastes.
  
  
• Construction waste characterization and management for large urban civil works projects including roads and housing redevelopment.
  
  
• Evaluated elevated metal concentrations in groundwater at an oil transfer station site with waste oil and semi-volatile groundwater contamination. Developed a chemical and transport model for an RI that indicated the metals were from a natural source.
  
  
• Redesigned, managed and provided data quality evaluation for a quarterly groundwater quality monitoring program, in accordance with Regional Water Quality Control Board site orders with negotiated approval.
  
  
• Investigated polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PNA) contamination related to a manufactured gas site in accordance with the Maher Ordinance in San Francisco, CA.
  
  
• Evaluated metal concentrations in groundwater and soil for the purpose of distinguishing naturally occurring metal concentrations from those potentially related to a metals release on several sites having different hydrogeologic and contaminant environments.
  
  

City of Richmond

• Designed and performed environmental site characterization and investigations of potentially contaminated and/or contaminate soil and groundwater, including QA/QC, regulatory compliance, environmental liability assessment for due diligence and/or site closure, construction waste management, and water resource evaluation.
  
  

Sonoma Applied Geochemistry & Geothermal Resource Projects

• Provided project management, investigation design, interaction with construction and design engineers and regulators for environmental characterization of construction wastes for the Sebastopol Road Widening Projects.

Selected Applied Geochemistry & Geothermal Resource Projects

CalEnergy Co., Inc., Geothermal Energy Research Development Co. (GERD of Japan), Daiichi/Sumitomo Metals.

• Analyzed scaling potential, performed preliminary design of scale mitigation including a computer based geochemical model of silica scaling potential within the surface facilities of a geothermal well field.
  
  

Calistoga Geothermal, CalEnergy International, Inc., Amoseas Indonesia, Inc. (Chevron Overseas), Sourfriere Energy, Inc., Pacific Gas & Electric Company

• Managed a comprehensive geochemical resource evaluation including resource assessment, water source evaluation, recharge, tracer test design and analysis, chemical characterization, non-condensable gas loading, scaling and corrosion potential.
  
  

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dames & Moore  (1990-1994)

Consultant

• Provided environmental and hydrogeochemical consulting services to geothermal, industrial and governmental clients throughout the world.
  

San Francisco, California (June - November, 1990)

Independent Consultant

• Provided consulting services to various clients for geothermal resource assessment and project development, environmental compliance and for solving and implementing solutions to geochemical problems in geothermal operations and development. Work involved projects in the Imperial Valley, Coso Hot Springs and The Geysers including analysis of hazardous waste disposal, AB2558 compliance, and steam field closure.
  

Geothermal Resources International, Inc., (GEO)  (1981- 1990)

San Mateo, California

Senior Geochemist

• Responsible for all geochemical projects and personnel. Managed projects and programs including: supervising up to 6 people; writing reports and proposals for internal, partnership, bank and government funding; planning and budgeting of projects and programs up to several hundred thousand dollars; and interacting with the scientific community.

  
  
  Selected Projects:

• Establishment of a geochemical monitoring program for resource characterization and environmental compliance for two Geysers steam fields and a brine field in the Imperial Valley.
  
  
• Determination of the origin of hydrogen chloride bearing steam at The Geysers, defined corrosivity, helped develop and implement mitigation, now testing and monitoring mitigation operations.
  
  
• Pilot tests, including data interpretation and reporting to develop a new hydrogen sulfide abatement method at The Geysers and to select a calcium carbonate scale inhibitor for Imperial Valley flashed brine.
  
  
• Use of stable isotopes of steam to trace reinjection breakthrough and connect it with geologic features at The Geysers.
  
  
• Design and supervision of a well tracer reinjection breakthrough and connect it with geologic features at The Geysers.
  
  
• Design and supervision of a well tracer test in the Imperial Valley.
  
  
• Use of computer based geotechnical modeling to determine equilibrium of steam + scrub water mixtures in corrosion mitigation and calcite saturation in boiling brines.
  
  
• Development of sampling and analysis portion of monitoring plans for AB2588 for two areas.
  
  

Urangesellschaft USA, Inc.  (February 1978- July 1978)

Denver, Colorado

Geologist

• Responsible for the field operation of an exploration drilling program in the sandstone-type uranium deposits of the Poison Basin, Baggs, Wyoming.

U.S. Geological Survey  (1975-1978)

Denver, Colorado

Geological Field Assistant

• Performed geologic mapping, planned and monitored a drilling program, and prepared data for Survey publications to evaluate federal coal reserves in NW Colorado and Baggs, Wyoming.

Middlebury College, N.S.F. Research Grant  (February - April, 1977))

Middlebury, Vermont

Research Assistant

• Geochemical analysis of Hawaiian basalts by AA, XRF, and petrography.

Haizlip, J.r., A.H. Truesdell, K. Bloomfield, and A.J. Driscoll, 1995, "Changes in Plant Inlet Gas Chemistry with Reservoir Condition, Location, and Time Over 15 Years of Production at The Geysers, CA, U.S.A.," Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress, 1995, Volume 3, pp. 1939-1944.

Osborn, W. L., P. Hirtz, and J. R. Haizlip, 1990, "Scale Inhibitor Testing at East Mesa," Geothermal Resources Council, Transactions, Vol. 14.

Meeker, K. A., and J. R. Haizlip, 1990, "Factors controlling pH and Optimum Corrosion Mitigation in Chloride-Bearing Geothermal Steam at The Geysers," Geothermal Resources Council, Transactions, Vol. 14, in press..

D'Amore, F., A. H. Truesdell, and J. R. Haizlip, 1990, "Production of HC1 by Mineral Reactions in High Temperature Geothermal Systems," Proceedings, 15th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, California, January 23-25, 1990.

Haizlip, J. R. and A. H. Truesdell, 1992, "Noncondensible Gas and Chloride Are Correlated in Steam at The Geysers," Monographs on the Geysers Geothermal Field, Geothermal Resources Council, Special Report No. 17, pp. 139-144.

McCartney, R. A., and J. R. Haizlip, 1989, "Anomalous Behavior of Hydrogen Steam from Vapor-Dominated Geothermal Systems," Proceedings, 14th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, California, January 24-26, 1989.

Truesdell, A. H., F. D'Amore, J. R. Haizlip, 1989, "The Rise and Fall of Chloride in Larderello Steam," Proceedings, 14th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, California, January 24-26, 1989.

McCartney, R. A., and J. R. Haizlip, 1989, "Boiling processes in vapor-dominated geothermal systems: Evidence from The Geysers Geothermal Field," Proceedings, 6th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Malvern U.K., August 3-9, 1989, pp. 469-473.

Truesdell, A. H., J. R. Haizlip, H. Armannsson, and F. D'Amore, 1989, "Origin and Transport of Chloride in Superheated Geothermal Steam," Geothermics, Vol. 18, No. 1/2, pp. 295-304.

Haizlip, J. R. and A. H. Truesdell, 1988, "Hydrogen Chloride in Superheated Steam and Chloride in Deep Brine at The Geysers Geothermal Field, California," Proceedings, 13th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, California, January 19-21, 1988.

Walters, M. A., J. N. Sternfeld, J. R. Haizlip, and A. F. Drenick, 1988, "A Vapor-Dominated Reservoir Exceeding 600 °F at The Geysers, Sonoma County, California," Proceedings, 13th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, California, January 19-21, 1988.

Truesdell, A.H., J. R. Haizlip, W. T. Box, and F. D'Amore, 1987, "Fieldwide Chemical and Isotopic Gradients in Steam from The Geysers," Proceedings, 12th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, California, January 20-22, 1987.

Shigeno, H., M. L. Stallard, A. H. Truesdell, and J. R. Haizlip, 1987, "13C/12C and D/H Ratios of CO₂, CH₄ and H₂ in The Geysers Geothermal Reservoir and their Implications," abs. EOS, Vol. 68, No. 44.

Truesdell, A. H., J. R. Haizlip, and W. T. Box, 1986, "A Geochemical Overview of The Geysers (California) Geothermal Reservoir," Transactions, 4th Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conference, August 17-22, 1986, pp. 487 & 499.

Haizlip, J. R., 1985, "Stable Isotopic Composition of Steam from Wells in the Northwest Geysers, Sonoma County, California," Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, Vol. 9, pt. 1, pp. 311 & 316.