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[Lord Darkstar]

Digging the aquifier square out will do it (ie, channelling it and removing the ramps). But you will need to do some serious pumping. Good luck with that.

Aquifiers are easiest to handle in freezing biomes. Just dig a shaft straight down from the surface where you want to breach the aquifer, let it freeze, dig out the frozen area (leaving an outside frozen ring), wall it, and when the aquifier unfreezes, you have your walled area safe and dry. If you have to punch through multiple layers, then you'll have to make the upper layers one ring wider then you need on the lower aquifier level so you can then freeze it and wall it off. So for a double layer of aquifiers, top needs to be 1 tile wider then you want for the lower. If its a triple layer, you'll need your top 2 rings wider than you want the bottom.

[AdirianSoan]

The inside part won't generate water if you channel it out before you start.  In general when I'm using pumps to push through aquifers I create something like this:


OOOOOOOOO
OXXXXXXXXXO
OXOOOOOOOXO
OXOOOOOOOXO
OXOOXXXPpXO
OXOOXXXOOXO
OXOOXXXOOXO
OXOOOOOOOXO
OXOOOOOOOXO
OXXXXXXXXXO
OOOOOOOOOOO

Where the X's are channels (channel from the inside out), and Pp represents a pump (I usually have 6 pumps for my non-carpenter to work); pump the water from the inner channeled area to the exterior and build walls.  Then move your pump over and empty the tile in the center.  (This is the minimum size, in practice it should be bigger in case of an aquifer a layer below.)

There are more efficient ways about this, it just depends on what you want it to look like when you're done, and where you hit the aquifer layers at.

[kzwix]

I dug and dried a much bigger area, like, 15x15. And turns out the Aquifer was on two levels, but not much (the second level, I could dig channels near the first walls, to create another wall, without pump. The water never went above 1/7 in those channels, while the channels at the middle of the hole were 7/7. I don't know why, but, well, I found some dry spots where to put stairs, so I didn't even finish the second wall, I dug right through. And now, the marvelous world of underground riches opens to me ^^

(Just about time, in fact. There are some damn goblin thieves coming for my still-outside stores and children. I'm relocating 7 levels below ASAP)