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Site Characterization Plan

The site characterization plan details the budget and scope of work that will be used to locate the plume of contamination. The pipeline company has given you a $50,000 budget to locate the plume. This will allow you install and sample 10 monitoring wells. When you run out of money, you will have to start over and a new problem setup will appear.

For the puproses of this exercise monitoring well installation and water sample collection and analysis take one week to complete before you can install the next well.

Well installation cost $4,000
Water sample collection & analysis cost $1,000

To resample an existing well, click on the monitoring well you wish to resample. The Observed Data window will appear with concentration data for the new sample, along with the data for all of the previously sited wells. For our purposes resampling and analysis takes one week to complete.

To complete this section of Plume Busters, you must find contaminant concentrations greater than 0 in water samples from 3 of the monitoring wells you install.

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