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Desktop analysis
Site history, available investigations, geology, bore logs, monitoring data, licences, operations and potential groundwater risks.
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Technical Groundwater Support
Field capability, backed by
groundwater expertise.
Targeted hydrogeological support to design monitoring properly, improve existing networks, interpret long-term records and keep technical decisions connected to the field evidence.
Monitoring program design
Build the monitoring system around the site.
Soltera can design a new program or review an existing one. The work starts with a desktop assessment and conceptual understanding of the groundwater system, then moves into the network, bore design, monitoring frequency and parameters.
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3D hydrogeological conceptual model
Integration of site data in specialist geological modelling platforms such as Seequent Leapfrog where the complexity and available data justify 3D conceptualisation.
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Monitoring network design
Number and location of bores, background and downgradient coverage, target aquifer, depth and screen interval recommendations.
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Frequency & instrumentation
Manual versus continuous monitoring, monitoring frequency, logger requirements and verification methods selected around groundwater behaviour and project objectives.
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Analytical suite design
Field and laboratory parameters based on site history, likely contaminants of concern, background chemistry, compliance requirements and receptor risk.
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Monitoring optimisation
Review of long-term programs to identify data gaps, redundant effort, bore condition issues and opportunities to improve monitoring value.
Bore network reviews
Is the network still answering the right questions?
Monitoring networks evolve. Site operations change, bores deteriorate, data gaps emerge and historical monitoring requirements may no longer reflect the current risk.
✓Spatial and vertical coverage
✓Upgradient, downgradient and receptor coverage
✓Target aquifer and screened interval suitability
✓Bore condition and monitoring continuity
✓Monitoring frequency and analytical suite
✓Redundancy, data gaps and optimisation opportunities
NETWORK REVIEW
CoverageWhere are the gaps?
TargetAre we monitoring the right aquifer?
FrequencyAre we capturing meaningful change?
ParametersAre we measuring the right things?
ValueWhat should change?
Trend analysis & interpretation
Understand what the monitoring record is showing.
Where required, Soltera can assess groundwater level and water-quality records to distinguish normal variability, data-quality issues and potentially meaningful change.
Groundwater level trends
Long-term change, seasonal behaviour, recharge response, pumping influence and operational responses.
Groundwater quality trends
Changes through time, spatial patterns, trigger comparisons and emerging groundwater-quality issues.
Hydrogeological interpretation
Groundwater flow direction, hydraulic gradients, aquifer connectivity, recharge/discharge processes and source-pathway-receptor relationships.
Technical review
Independent review of monitoring programs, groundwater datasets, consultant reports and investigation findings where a focused technical opinion is required.
Groundwater data services
Keep the technical question connected to the monitoring record.
Soltera can support the transition from raw field files to a structured, quality-controlled groundwater record with clear hydrographs, dashboards and technical interpretation.
Quality-control the record.
Barometric compensation, manual verification, reference checks, density correction where relevant, anomaly review and documented processing.
Make change visible.
Hydrographs, water-quality trends, trigger comparisons and dashboard views that bring the monitoring network together.
Answer the groundwater question.
Trend assessment, monitoring optimisation and targeted hydrogeological advice based on the field evidence.
3D hydrogeological visualisation
Communicate pathways, uncertainty and risk clearly.
Soltera can develop 3D conceptual groundwater models to support technical interpretation, monitoring network review and source–pathway–receptor assessment.