AI agent for environmental consultants
Groundwater Monitoring Network Review Agent
A justified monitoring program change that keeps coverage and meets the regulator's rules
What it does
Monitoring wells keep being sampled long after they stop adding information, while real gaps stay open. This agent reviews each well's trends and statistical significance, looks for wells that duplicate others, and finds areas with no coverage near the plume. It proposes changes, such as less frequent sampling or a new well, and tests them against the plume map and the regulator's rules. If a proposal violates a rule or leaves a gap, it revises and tests again. The lead approves any change that goes to the regulator. Edge case: a well shows no trend for 6 years but sits between two active sources, so the agent keeps it as a sentinel.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Annual review or new plume map
- Read results, well data and the monitoring plan
- Run trend tests for each well and constituent
- Identify redundant wells and coverage gaps
- Draft proposed changes with reasons
- Do the proposals keep coverage of the plume edge and sentinels?If not: restore the well or propose a replacement. Back to step 4.
- Do the proposals follow the regulator's frequency and well rules?If not: revise the proposal or flag for regulator discussion. Back to step 4.
- Draft the change request with supporting statistics
- Lead approves sending the change to the regulatorThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Monitoring program review
How it decides
A well is a candidate for reduced frequency when its trend is not significant, a neighbor gives the same information and it is not a sentinel.
- Keep any well at the plume edge or downgradient of a source
- Test trends at 95% confidence
- Propose reduction only when a neighbor carries the same information
- Never remove a compliance point without regulator approval
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Statistical confidence (default 95%)
- Sentinel well list
- Regulator rule set
- Years of data to use
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Program changes sent to the regulator
Hard limits
- Never changes sampling on its own
- Never reduces compliance points
It stops when
- Done: proposal passes coverage and rules
- Stop: data is too sparse for statistics
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide