A method for locating wells in a groundwater monitoring network under conditions of uncertainty

A method for locating wells in a groundwater monitoring network under conditions of uncertainty

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Article ID: iaor1990225
Country: United States
Volume: 24
Issue: 8
Start Page Number: 1277
End Page Number: 1282
Publication Date: Aug 1988
Journal: Water Resources Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: location
Abstract:

A method is presented for locating wells in a monitoring network under conditions of uncertainty. The method couples the use of a simulation model of contaminant transport and a facility location model. The Monte Carlo technique is used with the simulation model to translate uncertainty in the simulation model parameters into uncertainty in the contaminant concentration distribution. The simulation model determines which well locations would detect a given realization of a contaminant plume with a concentration above a specified limit. The facility location model is then used to select a fixed number of well locations so that a maximum number of such plume realizations are detected. The selected well network maximizes the probability of detection. The method is applied to an example problem. Although the technique is computationally intensive, the results indicate that practical problems are tractable.

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