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Description:

The Monitoring and Remediation Optimization System (MAROS) software has been developed by GSI and UH for the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) in accordance with the AFCEE Long-Term Monitoring Optimization guide. The software provides site managers with a strategy for formulating appropriate long-term groundwater monitoring programs that can be implemented at lower costs. MAROS is a decision support tool based on statistical methods applied to site-specific data that accounts for relevant current and historical site data as well as hydrogeologic factors (e.g. seepage velocity) and the location of potential receptors (e.g., wells, discharge points, or property boundaries). Based on this site-specific information the software suggests an optimization plan for the current monitoring system in order to efficiently achieve the termination of the monitoring program. This public domain software was developed for the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence through a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) contract with GSI Environmental Inc. Inc. of Houston, TX and the University of Houston. MAROS is programmed in Microsoft Access. 

MAROS 2.2 is compatible with Access 2000/XP. MAROS 2.2 adds functionality, including improved power analysis and moment analysis. It also has updated reports, graphing, and importing.

User-friendly interface: Graphical interface features easy to use groundwater monitoring optimization system and comprehensive guidance manual.

Groundwater Monitoring: Site-specific monitoring program that tracks the occurence of contaminant migration in groundwater. Monitoring program developed in accordance with AFCEE Long-term Monitoring Optimization Guide.

Moment Analysis : Improved estimation of the center of contaminant mass, and the spread of mass about the center.

Technical support is available via email from Mindy Vanderford.

System Requirements: IBM-compatible PC with Pentium or later processor. Recommended minimum 64 MB RAM (optimal 128 MB RAM). Requires Microsoft Office XP (Access XP), Microsoft Excel, and Windows 98 or later, or Windows NT.

NOTE: MAROS version 2.2 is not yet compatible with Office 2007

The following files are available for download:

Setup Files:

• 2003 version: Installation program, help files, and installation instructions for version 11 of Microsoft Office. 
  
• Office 2000 and Office XP version: Installation program, help files, and installation instructions for version 9 and 10 of Microsoft Office. 
• Office 2007 - Beta version! Try at your own risk.

Users Manual: User's Manual, includes screen-by-screen description of software use and comprehensive explanation of MAROS geostatistical methods, as well as a detailed tutorial. 

MAROS Data Preparation (the idiot's guide): Microsoft Word document that describes how to prepare data for use in the MAROS software.

Roadmap to Long-term monitoring optimization (LTMO): A USEPA guidance document that focuses on optimization of established long-term monitoring programs for groundwater.

• Appendix A.1 Data Import File Formats
• Appendix A.2 Statistical Trend Analysis Methods
• Appendix A.3 Well Redundancy/Sufficiency Analysis: Delaunay Method
• Appendix A.4 Qualitative Evidence: Empirical Data
• Appendix A.5 Spatial Moment Analysis
• Appendix A.6 Data Sufficiency Analysis
• Appendix A.7 False Positive/Negative Minimization Methodology
• Appendix A.8 MAROS Site Results
• Appendix A.9 Sampling Frequency Analysis

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the appropriate version of the MAROS software for your version of MIcrosoft Office (Office 2000 or Office XP/2003) above.
2. Run the MAROS self-extracting executable file and the files will install to C:\AFCEE_MAROS_v2_2
3. Make a copy of the files from #2 and place in a different location
4. Launch MAROS_v2_2.mdb (In order to run the software, all of the XLS files included with the setup program must be in the same directory.)
5. Refer to the MAROS users manual

To view pdf files you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from www.adobe.com.

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