Patent ID: 8244499

Claim:
A method for managing aquifer operation, the method comprising: receiving at an analysis computing device, one or more water measurements from a plurality of sites in an aquifer, wherein water measurements are received at a plurality of time points, and wherein a site includes one or more groundwater extraction wells; calculating well operational data for at least one groundwater extraction well based on the water measurements, wherein the well operational data includes well efficiency over a time period, wherein calculating the well operational data includes executing a well hydraulic interference evaluation of two or more groundwater extraction wells based on geographic reference coordinates, the executing including calculating a well interference based on a number of operator inputs received from a graphical user interface and based on the plurality of water measurements received from the two or more groundwater extraction wells; receiving an aquifer objective input via the graphical user interface presented on the analysis computing device; generating a pump operation signal based on the well operational data and the aquifer objective input.