diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 1f6881a4..d49ce4db 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1085,6 +1085,7 @@ if( ENABLE_VTK )
     set( VTK_DIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/vtk" )
     set( VTK_URL "${TPL_MIRROR_DIR}/VTK-59d89108f4.tar.gz" )
 
+
     message( STATUS "Building VTK found at ${VTK_URL}" )
 
     # Depending on the platfor, the install directory could be 'lib' or 'lib64'.
@@ -1093,6 +1094,12 @@ if( ENABLE_VTK )
     # I'm no cmake expert and I do not know if there was a better way to deal with it.
     set( VTK_CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR "lib" )
 
+    # This compile option will enclose all of the VTK library within a vtk_geosx namespace.
+    # This mangling is needed in order to ensure that the VTK included with geosx does
+    # not interfere with another VTK version that may be linked dynamically at runtime
+    # (when using ParaView's Catalyst implementation for example).
+    set( VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_NAME "vtk_geosx" )
+
 if( ENABLE_MPI )
     set( VTK_C_COMPILER ${MPI_C_COMPILER} )
     set( VTK_CXX_COMPILER ${MPI_CXX_COMPILER} )
@@ -1111,7 +1118,6 @@ endif( ENABLE_MPI )
                          PREFIX ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/vtk
                          URL ${VTK_URL}
                          INSTALL_DIR ${VTK_DIR}
-                         PATCH_COMMAND patch -p0 < ${TPL_MIRROR_DIR}/vtkXMLReader-fpe.patch
                          BUILD_COMMAND ${TPL_BUILD_COMMAND}
                          INSTALL_COMMAND "${TPL_INSTALL_COMMAND}"
                          PATCH_COMMAND patch -p1 < ${TPL_MIRROR_DIR}/VTK-ABI.patch
@@ -1140,7 +1146,8 @@ endif( ENABLE_MPI )
                                     -D VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_IOXML=YES
                                     -D VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_IOLegacy=YES
                                     -D VTK_BUILD_TESTING=OFF
-                                    -D VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE=ON )
+                                    -D VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE=ON 
+                                    -D VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_NAME=${VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_NAME} )
 
     list( APPEND build_list vtk )
 endif( ENABLE_VTK )
diff --git a/tplMirror/VTK-59d89108f4.tar.gz b/tplMirror/VTK-59d89108f4.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a8295dfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tplMirror/VTK-59d89108f4.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:f922d7e9f917ec9da5ce0a4dda60d8eb89f91c157658269e0f8be532bf958c2a
+size 42559503
diff --git a/tplMirror/VTK-ABI.patch b/tplMirror/VTK-ABI.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f8f1fd8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tplMirror/VTK-ABI.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+diff --git a/Common/Core/vtkValueFromString.cxx b/Common/Core/vtkValueFromString.cxx
+index 9e619a87a5..93ca79486d 100644
+--- a/Common/Core/vtkValueFromString.cxx
++++ b/Common/Core/vtkValueFromString.cxx
+@@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ const char* ParseInt(const char* it, const char* end, bool minus_sign, int base,
+ }
+ }
+ 
++VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
++
+ // Overload for integers
+ template <typename T,
+   typename std::enable_if<std::is_integral<T>::value && !std::is_same<T, bool>::value, bool>::type =
+diff --git a/Filters/Core/vtkFieldDataToDataSetAttribute.cxx b/Filters/Core/vtkFieldDataToDataSetAttribute.cxx
+index 9a8b23c67b..d8a451eca8 100644
+--- a/Filters/Core/vtkFieldDataToDataSetAttribute.cxx
++++ b/Filters/Core/vtkFieldDataToDataSetAttribute.cxx
+@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
+ 
+ #include <set>
+ 
++VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
+ vtkStandardNewMacro(vtkFieldDataToDataSetAttribute);
+ 
+ //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+diff --git a/Rendering/LICOpenGL2/vtkCompositeSurfaceLICMapper.cxx b/Rendering/LICOpenGL2/vtkCompositeSurfaceLICMapper.cxx
+index 6b00e7ff0f..b8d879ac9b 100644
+--- a/Rendering/LICOpenGL2/vtkCompositeSurfaceLICMapper.cxx
++++ b/Rendering/LICOpenGL2/vtkCompositeSurfaceLICMapper.cxx
+@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
+ 
+ #include "vtkSurfaceLICInterface.h"
+ 
++VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
++
+ vtkStandardNewMacro(vtkCompositeSurfaceLICMapper);
+ //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ vtkCompositeSurfaceLICMapper::vtkCompositeSurfaceLICMapper() = default;
+diff --git a/Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLBatchedPolyDataMapper.cxx b/Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLBatchedPolyDataMapper.cxx
+index d46b537d33..1ea50351bf 100644
+--- a/Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLBatchedPolyDataMapper.cxx
++++ b/Rendering/OpenGL2/vtkOpenGLBatchedPolyDataMapper.cxx
+@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
+ #include "vtkUnsignedIntArray.h"
+ #include <sstream>
+ 
+-VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
+ namespace
+ {
+ template <typename T>
+@@ -64,6 +63,8 @@ private:
+ 
+ } // end anonymous namespace
+ 
++VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
++
+ //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ vtkStandardNewMacro(vtkOpenGLBatchedPolyDataMapper);
+ 
+@@ -1643,3 +1644,5 @@ int vtkOpenGLBatchedPolyDataMapper::CanUseTextureMapForColoring(vtkDataObject*)
+ 
+   return 1;
+ }
++
++VTK_ABI_NAMESPACE_END