Groundwater Statistics and Monitoring Compliance: Statistical Tools for the Project Life Cycle (GSMC-1, 2013) is a guidance document that helps practitioners understand, interpret, and use statistical techniques to successfully manage groundwater compliance or cleanup projects. The guidance is specifically for environmental project managers who must review or use statistical calculations for reports, who must make recommendations or decisions based on statistics, or who must demonstrate compliance for groundwater projects. These individuals typically have a technical background and experience in one or more disciplines related to site compliance or cleanup, but do not have specific expertise in statistics or access to in-house statistical expertise.
Groundwater statistical methods have applications throughout the life cycle of environmental projects. This document organizes the discussion of site management around five main stages in an environmental project life cycle: release detection, site characterization, remediation, monitoring, and closure. Although individual projects may vary in their progression through these stages, groundwater statistical tests can support decision making, regardless of how the project is defined.
Topic(s): Groundwater Monitoring, Remediation Technologies, Sediments, Statistics
