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Groundwater Applications & Capabilities
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Groundwater Applications & Capabilities

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Applications & Capabilities
YSI offers a comprehensive suite of applications for groundwater management, including aquifer testing, down-well sampling, low-flow purging, and remote real-time data acquisition. These capabilities are crucial for sustainable groundwater resource management.
Global Presence
YSI has a global footprint with operations in the USA, Japan, China, India, Australia, England, and Bahrain, ensuring widespread access to their technologies.
Groundwater Market Service
Groundwater is vital for drinking, industrial, and agricultural purposes, supporting about half of the global population. YSI addresses challenges like depletion, increased extraction costs, and contamination with cost-effective monitoring solutions.
Technological Solutions
YSI provides a range of instruments for groundwater monitoring, including handheld devices for spot sampling and long-term monitoring tools with real-time data acquisition. Their products are designed for durability and low maintenance.
Level Scout Features
The Level Scout is a durable tool for level monitoring, featuring user-replaceable batteries, fast sampling rates, and a long battery life. It supports various sampling modes and includes a 2-year warranty.
Sampling and Monitoring
YSI offers single, dual, and multiparameter sampling instruments, such as the Professional Plus and ProODO, which measure parameters like dissolved oxygen, pH, and conductivity, essential for understanding groundwater conditions.
Long-term Monitoring
YSI's instruments support unattended, long-term monitoring, providing valuable data for groundwater fluctuation analysis. The Level Scout and 600 series sondes are ideal for large-scale monitoring and saltwater intrusion studies.
Low-flow Purging
Low-flow purging minimizes disturbance and provides representative samples of contaminants, reducing water waste and field time. YSI's Professional Plus and 556 configurations are designed for effective groundwater monitoring.
Portable Lab Solutions
YSI offers portable photometers with over 100 test choices, providing an all-in-one lab solution that is environmentally friendly and easy to use in the field.
Specifications
The equipment measures parameters such as dissolved oxygen, pH, ORP, temperature, conductivity, salinity, turbidity, total dissolved solids, nitrate, ammonium, and chloride. It features a durable design, USB connectivity, and can store up to 500 sets of data.
Procedures
Low-flow purging is emphasized to minimize disturbance and ensure representative sample collection, reducing mixing of stagnant and screened interval water, minimizing drawdown, and decreasing water waste.
Norms and Recommendations
The document references USEPA guidelines on low-flow groundwater sampling, highlighting benefits in reducing sediment disturbance, improving sample quality for VOCs, and lowering groundwater purging volumes and costs.
Instrumentation
Various sondes and cables are discussed, including the Pro Plus with Quatro Cable, 556 MPS, and 600XL/XLM models, each offering different parameter measurement capabilities and flow cell configurations.
Data Acquisition
Remote data acquisition systems using radio telemetry and YSI EcoNet for real-time data transmission and monitoring are described, reducing the need for site visits.
Applications
Examples of flow cell monitoring for groundwater contamination reporting are provided, along with application notes on various environmental monitoring projects.
Contact Information
Contact details for YSI Environmental and its global branches are included for further inquiries and support.
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Applications & Capabilities Aquifer testing Down-well sampling & monitoring Low-flow purging Remote, real-time data acquisition

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San Diego, California, USA Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA Marion, Massachusetts, USA St. Petersburg, Florida, USA Logan, Utah USA Hertfordshire, England Kingdom of Bahrain Tokyo, Japan Kawasaki City, Japan Beijing, China Hong Kong, China Gurgaon, India Queensland, Australia How Do We Serve the Groundwater Market? Access to a clean, reliable water source is necessary to sustain population growth and promote economic development. Currently, about 3 billion people, approximately 1/2 of the world’s population, depend on groundwater supplies as their source of drinking water,...

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Applications & Capabilities groundwater In order for the global community to maintain its population growth, we need sustainable management of our groundwater resources. YSI is committed to providing cost-effective monitoring and sampling solutions to help groundwater professionals meet this challenge. Our technologies offer real advantages that result in real savings. Whether you require a handheld instrument for spot sampling down well or in a ow cell, a level instrument for aquifer tests, or an instrument for long-term monitoring with optional real time data acquisition, partnering with YSI...

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Level, pressure, temperature • Groundwater/aquifer testing • Aquifer storage and recovery • Resource management • Pump, slug, step, and recovery tests • Soil Vapor Extraction tests * Leachate monitoring YSI's Level Scout™ contains a highly accurate pressure trans- ducer in a field-rugged housing. Accurate measurements, rugged easy data management make the Level Scout ideal for your next evel monitoring application. The YSI Level Scout is available as • stainless steel or titanium batteries prevents costly • Fastest sampling rate in • Battery life exceeds 3 intervals minimizing maintenance require-...

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Level measurements provide the fundamental source of knowledge for highly dynamic groundwater systems. Hydrologic stresses on these systems affect recharge rates, specic capacity and transmissivity. Long-term water level measurements provide data to evaluate, develop, design, implement, and accurately monitor the effectiveness of groundwater use and management decisions. The human population currently withdraws approximately 1,000 km3 of groundwater annually. Field Cable Selection Guide 711 - polyethylene jacket for use with stainless steel Level Scouts 721 - ETFE jacket for use with stainless...

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Down-well sampling Parameters Dissolved Oxygen (polarographic, galvanic, optical), pH, ORP, conductivity, salinity, temperature, total dissolved solids, turbidity, ammonium, nitrate, chloride Single, dual and multiparameter handheld sampling Sampling Single Parameter Sampling Professional Plus* offers many measurement possibilities including single-parameter options for conductivity, salinity (60530), DO (60520), ISEs (60510) and temperature. Pro20 is a basic handheld for DO and temperature. ProODO® measures DO using optical technology. Pro Plus Dual Parameter Sampling Professional Plus* offers...

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Quickly and conveniently capturing water quality data through spot sampling can provide immediate knowledge of the condition of local groundwater parameters. Long-term monitoring provides a broad understanding of monitoring well conditions during all phases of ground water uctuations. Plume delineation and pollutant transport are best understood through longterm data analysis. Comprehensive data on groundwater resources and pollution trends are not readily available at the global level. Monitoring Parameters Dissolved oxygen (polarographic, optical), pH, ORP, conductivity, salinity, temperature,...

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Quickly and conveniently capturing water quality data through spot sampling can provide immediate knowledge of the condition of local groundwater parameters. Long-term monitoring provides a broad understanding of monitoring well conditions during all phases of ground water uctuations. Plume delineation and pollutant transport are best understood through longterm data analysis. Comprehensive data on groundwater resources and pollution trends are not readily available at the global level. Monitoring Parameters Dissolved oxygen (polarographic, optical), pH, ORP, conductivity, salinity, temperature,...

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Parameters Chromium, copper, hardness, iron, nitrate, nitrite, turbidity, zinc and more Simple: Insert blank. Insert sample with reagent. Get data. Parameters Dissolved oxygen (polarographic, galvanic, optical), pH, ORP, temperature, conductivity, salinity, turbidity, total dissolved solids, nitrate, ammonium, chloride Parameter stabilization monitoring above ground ensures representative sample collection Generally, water in the well casing is not representative of the formation water and typically needs to be purged prior to the collection of water samples. Low-ow purging has the advantage...

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Parameters Chromium, copper, hardness, iron, nitrate, nitrite, turbidity, zinc and more Simple: Insert blank. Insert sample with reagent. Get data. Parameters Dissolved oxygen (polarographic, galvanic, optical), pH, ORP, temperature, conductivity, salinity, turbidity, total dissolved solids, nitrate, ammonium, chloride Parameter stabilization monitoring above ground ensures representative sample collection Generally, water in the well casing is not representative of the formation water and typically needs to be purged prior to the collection of water samples. Low-ow purging has the advantage...

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collection of data must be truly representative of the site conditions. The use of low-ow purging and its methodology provides the least disturbance possible to meet this goal. The overall goal of any groundwater monitoring program is to collect unaltered water samples to provide the highest quality data possible. In order to achieve this objective, the The United States uses 83.2 billion gallons per day of fresh ground water from approximately 15.9 million water wells. Flow Cell Guide Instrument Flow Cell Pro Plus w/ various cables** Optical DO, Temp, Cond, pH, ORP Optical DO, Turbidity, Temp,...

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