| Abstract: | Monitoring ground water quality on a statewide basis is a challenge being faced by a number of state and federal agencies involved with water quality. Many of these agencies have come forth with publications that are of some use to those who are engaged in developing monitoring networks. A review of this literature could save those involved much time and money by providing insight into what can be accomplished and/or avoided. Ultimately, each monitoring system has to be designed to meet the purposes and conditions for which it is created, no two situations ever being exactly alike. However, there are approaches and methods that can be borrowed and profitably utilized where both the problems confronted and the geology in which they are found are similar. It was the attempt to resolve these two conflicting tenets, situational uniqueness and methodological transferability, that impelled the state of Arkansas to develop the prototype approach that is to be described, along with some of the more important documents that were of use in the development of that approach.
Figure I highlights the main tenets of the prototype approach and Figure II locates each prototype within the state of Arkansas. |
