• CCT-Table Mountain Group (TMG) Aquifer Project

    Year: 2002 – ongoing | Client: City of Cape Town | Location: South Africa

    A Feasibility Study and Pilot Project into the viability of the TMG Aquifer for bulk water supply to Cape Town, more particularly the deep confined portions of the Peninsula Formation.  Duties included evaluation of proposed well-field sites, design of a monitoring programme to assess future possible impacts of abstraction from the TMG aquifer on rivers and wetlands in the area and review of the subsequent monitoring activities, which have been outsourced. 

  • Kenya – Implementation Support Consultant to support strengthening Water Resources Planning and Management

    Year: 2017 – 2019 | Client: Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Kenya /Aurecon | Location: Kenya

    The project is phase 1 of the Kenyan Water Security and Climate Resilience Project (KWSCRP),which has three inter-related components supporting the project development objective,the first is water-resources development,the second is effective water sector institutions and the third is support of project implementation.The Environmental Flow Specialist provides support for all three of these through a combination of technical and capacity building tasks.

  • Riversdale Coal Dredging of the Zambezi River Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)

    Year: 2009 – 2011 | Client: ERM/ Riversdale Coal, Australia | Location: Mozambique

    Assessment of the possible impacts on the lower Zambezi River, and in particular the Zambezi Delta as a result of proposed dredging operation. This work included modelling the impact of four different scenarios of operation (timing and design of waterways) on the ecosystem functioning of the Zambezi River and floodplains/delta from Tete to the sea.

  • Update of the Present Ecological Status Assessments for four Water Management Areas in the Western Cape Province

    Year: 2011 – 2012 | Client: Department of Water Affairs | Location: South Africa

    Update of PES, EIS and species list databases, plus Factsheets, for over 1500 locations in the Olifants-Doorn, Breede-Overberg, Berg and Gouritz Water Management Areas.

  • Western Cape Water Supply Systems Study

    Year: 2008 – ongoing | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry | Location: South Africa

    Provision of environmental flow information to pre-feasibility and feasibility studies of surface water developments to augment the supply of water to Cape Town.  Joint Venture with Ninham Shand and Kwezi V3.

  • WRC Peninsula Aquifer Project

    Year: 2002 – 2009 | Client: Water Research Commission | Location: South Africa

    Research Project aimed at the development of predictive tools and indices to assess the impact (or risk of impact) of groundwater abstraction on the environment; improved understanding of groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) in the Table Mountain Group (TMG), development of innovative techniques to determine the impacts of groundwater abstraction on the environment; development of indicators to monitor the effect of abstraction; and improved understanding of the impact of changing low flows on freshwater ecology and the relationship between surface flow, event discharge from high-lying TMG unconfined aquifers and deep confined-aquifers in maintaining wetlands or seeps.

  • Zambezi Delta Options Assessment

    Year: 2005 – 2006 | Client: Saving Cranes Foundation | Location: Mozambique

    An advocacy exercise using the DRIFT EF process for the Zambezi Delta involving interest groups instead of biophysical specialists with the main aim of assessing the implications of various release options from the hydropower facility at Cahorra Bassa Dam.

 

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