Our Skills

We have the following areas of expertise

Onsite Wastewater design

  • Small community design
  • Funding analysis
  • Pressure sewer assessment
  • Conceptual design
  • Detailed design
  • Feasibility assessments
  • Regulatory development
  • Resource Management Act
  • Catchment investigation
  • Risk assessments.

Nutrient Management

  • Modelling (Overseer and others)
  • Nutrient budgeting
  • Monitoring
  • Fertiliser recommendations
  • Fate assessment
  • Sampling
  • Catchment management.

Soil

  • Nutrient sampling
  • Retentivity analysis
  • Hydraulic measurements
  • Loading assessments
  • Water balances
  • Storage assessment
  • Site characterisation
  • Soil surveys
  • LUC/LRI mapping.

Contaminated Sites

  • Due diligence investigations
  • Property audits
  • Property inspections
  • PSI - Preliminary site investigation reporting
  • DSI - Detailed site investigations - as per requirements of NES (soil contaminants)
  • Investigations for industrial, residential, commenrcial & rural sites
  • Remediation & management plans
  • Validation reports
  • Resource consents

Wastes

  • Sampling
  • Characterisation
  • Biosolid assessment and system design
  • Management plans
  • Agricultural effluent design and management
  • Odour plans
  • Research and investigation programs
  • Community Wastewater.

Resource Consent Application Preparation

  • Scoping and undertaking technical investigations
  • Consultation and community engagement
  • AEE preparation
  • s92 responses
  • s42A reporting
  • Decision making
    / mediation
    / commissioner.

Stormwater

  • Feasibility assessments
  • Rainfall - runoff modelling
  • Assessment of Environmental Effects
  • Conceptual treatment and attentuation design, specialising in natural treatment systems
  • Conveyance system design
  • Detailed treatment and attenuation design
  • Discharge to land and surface water design solutions
  • Erosion and sediment control design and plan preparation.

Water

  • Sampling
  • Irrigation scheduling
  • Irrigation feasibility assessment
  • Water balances
  • Ground and surface water takes
  • Farm culvert
  • Farm dams
  • Management plans
  • Catchment planning.

 

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