Web‐based automated remediation performance monitoring and visualization of contaminant mass flux and discharge |
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Authors: | Mark L. Kram Steve Airhart Daniel Tyler Amy Dindal Andrew Barton John L. McKernan Gregg Gustafson |
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Affiliation: | 1. Groundswell Technologies, Inc;2. Freestone Environmental Services, Inc.;3. Battelle;4. US EPA Advanced Monitoring Systems Center;5. Instrumentation Northwest, Inc. |
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Abstract: | Environmental monitoring, data processing, and reporting methods are expensive, labor‐ and resource‐intensive, time‐consuming, and often inaccurate. An innovative project management platform was developed for integrating environmental monitoring sensors, telemetry, geographical information systems, models, and geostatistical algorithms for automatically generating contour maps and time‐stamped renderings of sensor attributes and multivariate analyses. More specifically, algorithms converting sensor‐derived head and solute concentration values allow for automated monitoring of mass flux and discharge to evaluate groundwater remediation system performance and contaminant discharges from aquifers to surface‐water receptors. Life‐cycle costs and carbon footprints were reduced due to the elimination of energy and labor expenditures associated with transportation, data collection, laboratory efforts, report generation, and information dissemination. A brief summary of two demonstrations of this sensor‐based water resources management application is presented. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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