Water Quality Services

The Water Quality Services team has a wide breadth and depth of experience in developing and undertaking water quality monitoring programs from plot to catchment scale to develop new knowledge and data to inform management actions for improved water quality outcomes. With specialised environmental knowledge of the Central Queensland region, our water quality consultants are ideally placed to service regional needs.

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Products and Services

Strategic Planning

  • Development of Water Management Plans (surface and groundwater)
  • Receiving environment monitoring plans

On Ground Monitoring

With a focus on water quality and ecosystem health:

  • Experimental design
  • Installation and maintenance of monitoring equipment, such as pitfall and KP samplers
  • Rainfall simulation
  • Surface and Groundwater monitoring
  • Scientific report writing
  • Local knowledge of Central and North Queensland

Coordination and Management

  • Integration of complex data sets
  • Project management and reporting
  • Data interpretation and analysis
  • Training and workshop facilitation
  • Science communication for general audiences – knowledge transfer
  • Stakeholder consultation

Our Water Quality Services team leads the way in improving water quality across the Great Barrier Reef catchments, as well as other regions across Australia and internationally. The team offers partners and clients authoritative advice and services, from on-ground water quality improvement activities, such as small plot rainfall simulation, to paddock and catchment loads monitoring and research design, to coordination of water quality management programs of all scales.

Water Quality Monitoring

The Water Quality Services team has a wide breadth and depth of experience in developing and undertaking water quality monitoring programs from plot to catchment scale. We manage databases and interpret water quality results to inform management actions for improved water quality outcomes. With specialised environmental knowledge of the Central and North Queensland region, our water quality consultants are ideally placed to service regional needs.

The team has the experience and knowledge to tailor a Water Quality Monitoring Program to suit our client’s needs, goals and objectives. These individualised programs can include:

  • Impact assessments
  • Compliance
  • Trend, and
  • Investigative monitoring
Water Quality Monitoring taking samples
Water Quality Monitoring taking samples
Water Quality Monitoring O'Connell River Caping Road site
Water Quality Monitoring O’Connell River Caping Road site
Streambank Water Quality Monitoring collecting data
Streambank Water Quality Monitoring collecting data
Sample collection Mackay urban site
Sample collection Mackay urban site
Sample Bottles
Sample Bottles

Rainfall Simulation

With our rainfall simulator, rain events of known properties can be created, allowing increased control over the many variables that govern natural rainfall. Whether you are seeking field parameter values for use in model calibrations, product comparisons, or rapid initial assessment of a wide range of factors, a rainfall simulator can provide the answers. Rainfall simulators have been in use in the mining, agricultural and urban environments to determine sustainable development impacts and to assist with best practice measures.

Services

  • Rainfall simulator single cell (three nozzles)
  • Agricultural runoff trials
  • Soil type trials

Agriculture

Banana trash runoff trials
Banana trash runoff trials

 

Pasture run off trials
Pasture run off trials

 

Rainfall Simulator in action
Sugar Cane run off trials

Soil type trials

Understanding rainfall erosion in sodic soils
Understanding rainfall erosion in sodic soils

Water Quality Modelling

Through our knowledge and experience with water quality monitoring, the team has the expertise, knowledge and networks to undertake water quality modelling activities to meet client needs.