Working through the feedback from the end-user testing round. These notes
move under a version heading when the release is actually cut.
Added
- Licensed and unlicensed wells are now shown. Every well carries its
GWELLS licence status — Licensed, Unlicensed, Historical, or Unknown
where GWELLS does not say — in the details table, the map pop-up, the
CSV, the PDF, the KML, and the standalone map. On the map, a dark
ring around a marker means the well is currently licensed. Licence
status is shown for information only; it does not change any well's
status or at-risk result. - An "Other" option in the aquifer picker. If the well is completed
in an aquifer that has not been delineated, you can now say so — even
when the point sits on or near mapped aquifers. Pick "Other", choose
the material, and enter T and S. The results page and the PDF record
the choice, and name the nearest mapped aquifer so a reviewer can see
what was set aside. - A "Method, assumptions and limitations" panel on the results page,
collapsed until you open it. It explains what the tool does and does
not tell you, and what the 30% at-risk threshold means. Guidance on
aquifer defaults now sits with the T and S fields on the setup page,
and guidance on checking driller's logs sits with the details table.
The PDF export carries all of it in one section. - A 0 m reference line on the distance-drawdown chart, marking the
water level before pumping starts, so the drawdown and SAD bars have
a datum to be read against. - Plain-language definitions of s and r under the
distance-drawdown chart, and of NPL above the details table. - The map pop-up now shows the well's aquifer number.
- Aquifer numbers that are not formally delineated are now marked.
GWELLS assigns some wells to an aquifer number the provincial aquifer
layer has no mapped polygon for — Aquifer 1143 is one. Those now read
"1143 (not delineated)" in the details table, the map pop-up, the CSV,
the PDF, and the KML, so it is clear the number is not a mapped
aquifer. The wells are still included and still analysed; a blank
Aquifer ID still means GWELLS assigns the well to no aquifer at all.
The check is made against the aquifer layer on every run rather than
against a fixed list, so it keeps up as more aquifers are delineated.
Changed
- Aquifers are now identified by number first, with the material in
brackets — "Aquifer 199 (Sand and Gravel)" — in the aquifer picker,
the results summary, and the PDF, since that is how aquifers are
usually referred to. - Up to five nearby aquifers are suggested instead of three, for
areas where several small aquifers sit close together. - SAD bars on the distance-drawdown chart are now colour-coded.
Orange means the well has headroom left; red means predicted
drawdown has passed that well's Safe Available Drawdown. A red bar
points upward from the well — that is not a fault, it is the tool
showing an over-impacted well. A caption under the chart explains it. - The manual-entry material option is now just "Unconsolidated"
rather than "Unconsolidated (sand and gravel)", which wrongly implied
every unconsolidated aquifer is sand and gravel. - The impact chart caption now reads "sorted by magnitude of impact"
and no longer describes the threshold line as red — the line is drawn
dark on purpose, so it stays distinct from the red at-risk bars. - Well tag numbers no longer get clipped at the top-right of the
distance-drawdown chart. - Well tag numbers on the distance-drawdown chart now alternate
above and below their point, so wells at similar distances from
the pumping well stop printing on top of each other. When even that
isn't enough, a new "Show well tag numbers on the chart" tickbox
turns them off — hovering a point still names the well, and the PDF
captures the chart as you left it. - The Impact % chart now keeps a WTN on every bar. It grows taller
as the buffer gets busier instead of squeezing the bars until labels
silently dropped out. Past roughly 85 wells there is genuinely no
room left, and the caption now says so rather than leaving you to
spot the gaps.
Removed
- The "Max drawdown" summary tile, from both the results page and
the PDF. It was easily misread as the drawdown at the pumping well
when it was actually the largest drawdown at any nearby well.
Per-well drawdown is unchanged in the table, charts, and exports.