Automated Data Acquisition System

Client: San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Location: Highland, CA Contact for information management projects: Michael Scrafford

Project Background & Challenges

During the last decade, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has developed springs that supply its drinking water business. When the springs were threatened by groundwater drainage from an underground water supply tunnel under construction, the Tribe required help to monitor the potential impacts to its groundwater resources.

Solution

Aspect designed and installed an automated data-acquisition system (DAS) that records data from 17 groundwater and surface water stations daily. We also instrumented two stations in a remote canyon with dataloggers. The DAS allows real-time monitoring of pressure and flow information and sends data to Aspect’s office via phone-line telemetry and populates a custom Access database with over 5 million records. Data is validated, used to make various calculations, and then dynamically linked to presentation software. With construction of the tunnel completed, we continue to monitor the stations for impacts.