Water Resource Management
We are able to offer a range of water resource management related services. This ranges from site-based assessments of rivers and streams to inform development applications through to strategic catchment-level evaluations.
Services Offered:
- Water Use License Applications.
- Riparian zone delineation.
- etting buffers for rivers, wetlands and estuaries.
- Vegetation and fluvial geomorphological assessments.
- Aquatic Invertebrate Assessments (SASS5).
- Evaluating impacts of proposed developments on water resources.
- Integrating Sustainable Urban Drainage into development planning
- Identifying site-based mitigation measures to reduce impacts on water resources.
- Specialist input into reserve determination studies.
- Classification of water resources & setting resource quality objectives (RQOs) for water resources.
- Evaluating compliance against the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) standard
Selected Project Involvement:
- Specialist Aquatic Assessment for the N2 Wild coast toll highway – SANRAL / CCA Environmental.
- Pilot study to assess the feasibility of implementing the AWS standard on Mondi’s Zululand FMU – WWF / Mondi
- Pilot study as part of the development of a Green Infrastructure Strategy – City of JoBurg
- Development of procedures to determine and implement Resource Quality Objectives in order to implement the National Water Act – DWA.
- Specialist ecological screening of proposed dams in the Tina River and Kinaria River catchments – MBB Consulting Engineers.
- Mzimkhulu River Catchment Water Resource Study – IHI and wetland assessments – Aurecon (Pty) Ltd / INR.
- Specialist Aquatic Assessment for the proposed Somkhele Mine Expansion – Tendele Coal Mining / GCS
- Baseline Aquatic Assessment and biomonitoring for the Dube Trade Port Site – INR / ACSA
- Specialist Aquatic Assessment for the Zululand Anthracite Coilery – GCS
- Setting Resource Quality Objectives (RQOs) for wetlands in the Olifants catchment – DWA / INR
- Guideline for accreditation of IHI Practitioners: National Ecosystem Health Monitoring Programme – DWAF.
- State of the rivers reports for Sappi Forests Plantations – Sappi Forests (Pty)
Research Publications:
- Department of Water Affairs, 2011: Procedures to Develop and Implement Resource Quality Objectives. Department of Water Affairs, Pretoria, South Africa. Authors: Chris Dickens, Catherine Pringle, Douglas Macfarlane
Recent Presentations:
- 2013: SASAQS Conference: Buffers Workshop – A method for determining appropriate buffer zones for wetlands, rivers and estuaries
- 2010: National Wetland Indaba: Management of water resources using resource Quality Objectives.
