UC Santa Barbara

The design of groundwater monitoring networks is a function of 1) the statistical heterogeneity and geologicl anisotropy of the aquifer; 2) the hydrodynamics of plume migration; 3) the practical decisions that result from a data acquisition program; 4) budgetary constraints imposed on available resources. The joint treatment of such factors and their incorporation on a mathematical (combinatorial) formulation of the problem to determine the best well locations was given in this paper. The next step should be the application to an actual design. Efforts are in progress in this direction; the mathematical conceptualization and commanding factors in groundwater network design has been set in this work. -from Author