Effective Open Cast Pit Dewatering And Groundwater Management At Sishen Mine By Utilizing Software And Technology.
It's been said that you cannot manage what you cannot measure. This is especially true with groundwater management; where we have limited data allowing us to 'see' the underground source. All over the world, people are spending aquifers full of money (bucket loads) on monitoring programmes and hydro census's. They capture borehole locations, water levels, abstraction rates, rainfall measurements and water quality analysis, then typically store the product, the deliverable, their valuable data, in a massive amount of spreadsheets.