Monitoring Regional Ground-Water Quality: Statistical Considerations andDescription of a Monitoring Network in Kansas

摘要

Ground-water-quality monitoring networks should be able to answer three generalquestions: What is typical water quality; Does the ground water that is available meet existing water-quality standards; Are there indications that water quality is changing so that it will not meet standards in the future. Ground-water-quality monitoring networks can provide answers to these questions if they are carefully designed. The report presents basic statistical principles that can be used to design and evaluate data from a regional monitoring network and demonstrates use of these principles through an example of a ground-water-quality monitoring network in Kansas.