Groundwater data is collected from intervals, installed in a borehole and established as a location. This three tier naming convention and database structure has been designed to offer the flexibility to handle various monitoring data types, including sumps, surface water, catch basins etc. Effectively, the interval is the screen in the monitoring well, or the physical object from which or from where the temporal data is collected. Screens are installed in boreholes, which have their own properties such as seal depths, drilling angle and dates. Finally, several boreholes may be installed next to each other, drilled to varying depths, and collectively become a monitoring location, also known as a master location (see below figure) that can be thought of as a point on the map.
Location
An area on the ground from where samples are collected. Considered as one marker on the map and is typically displayed as a dot on the map.
Borehole
Borehole or testpit excavated at a location. A location may have one or more boreholes.
Interval
A discrete sampling location, with x,y,z co-ordinates. Examples include sampling screens in a ground water monitor, catch basin inlets.
The Locations Management menu in SiteFX is used to manage the locations, boreholes, monitoring wells, sampling stations etc. for the site, study or project. Here you will input details regarding borehole and monitoring well construction, geology, co-ordinates etc. The remainder of this chapter covers the functions found under the Locations Management menu.
Note: There are many different users of SiteFX and therefore several different versions. You may find that some of the information discussed below is not available in your version of SiteFX.