Implementation
Upon confirmation and agreement from the MWA, the field test team will start to deploy site measurement equipment.
The field test will be carried out at least seven days to cover weekdays and weekend measurement. This is to enable the modeller to choose a calibration day which can represent the system under normal operating conditions. During field test, the field team will do constant check on critical measurement points such as the boundary flow measurements to ensure satisfactory data is recorded.
Equipment will be retrieved with data downloaded once the field test is deemed successful and over the minimum seven days period.
GPS for all field test points will be carried out during the seven days period and it might require extension depending on the size of the field test. This exercise will gain elevation data which required during the head analysis and also calibration.
There is bound to be measurement failure during field test. In this aspect, the team will need to discuss with MWA to establish criteria for field test acceptance. Only field test with failures which prevent satisfactory model calibration will require retest after thorough discussion with the client. It is an acceptable practice of retesting certain section of the model and calibrates the area on a different calibration day.
The number of equipment proposed will able to run 1 DMA per field test at one time. Therefore 3 weeks required for field testing and another week for deploying, dismantling loggers, downloading and GPS points.