Wellntel Is Emerging as a Powerful Tool for Groundwater Monitoring Supporting Informed Management

Growing and deepening groundwater information networks to improve understanding and management has always been challenged by the high cost of adding the next monitoring point. Wellntel completely changes that dynamic by introducing simple, accurate, consumer-priced groundwater level monitoring sensors and a cloud-based information system providing new insight at fractions of a cent per reading. This new system provides stakeholders such as well owners, well contractors, municipalities, and communities the ability to view graphical representations of their groundwater resource in a common access interface fostering a collaborative environment which builds understanding and new insights into groundwater change. By developing a clear baseline of groundwater dynamics, stakeholders are able to make informed and influential management decisions. Recognizing the opportunity to increase the density of data in local networks for model validation, early warning systems, and for guiding and enriching costly groundwater sampling projects, agencies, consultants, and other research organizations are adding Wellntel to their monitoring infrastructure. The utility of Wellntel for both stakeholder and research applications opens the door to new engagement between these groups, which is leading to powerful new opportunities for collaborative understanding and management. Wellntel is transforming the way groundwater monitoring can support both stakeholder management and academic research by expanding the geographic reach and temporal frequency of groundwater level measurements with a purpose-built, telemetry enabled system, and by maintaining data quality assurance and quality control using the cloud.