• Komati River Reserve Determination

    Year: 2003 – 2004 | Client: Department of Water affairs and Forestry | Location: South Africa

    This study objective is to recommend a comprehensive Ecological Water Requirement (EWR), for water quality and quantity, for various reaches of the Komati River.

  • Links between riparian vegetation and flow

    Year: 2010 – 2013 | Client: Water Research Commission | Location: South Africa

    Quantifying the links between patterns of riparian vegetation and flow on South African rivers. Current knowledge, existing data from Reserve studies, and empirical evidence was synthesized to propose a naming convention, methods of identification and a description of the characteristics of lateral zonation patterns in riparian vegetation communities.

  • Lower Orange River Management Study

    Year: 2002 – 2005 | Client: South African and Namibian Department of Water Affairs | Location: Namibia

    An assessment of the relationship between the current flow regime in the river and the EFR recommended by the Desktop Model was examined, and appropriate changes be made to the recommended flows.  The results of these analyses were incorporated into the systems modelling for planning purposes.  Thereafter a ToR for a Comprehensive (reactive) EF assessment for the Orange River and its estuary was compiled.

  • National Biomonitoring Programme for Riverine Ecosystems

    Year: 1995 – 1996 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry | Location: South Africa

    A project to develop a protocol for selection of reference and monitoring sites for the National Biomonitoring Programme. Project included organisation and co-ordination of a national workshop involving 21 river scientists, chairing workshop sessions, production of the proceedings of the workshop, technical design and decision making, production of a report on reference and monitoring site selection, presentations to the scientific community.  The National Biomonitoring Programme has now been running successfully for almost decade.

  • Olifants-Doring Technical Training

    Year: 2008 – 2009 | Client: C.A.P.E. | Location: South Africa

    The Olifants Doring River Ecological Reserve and Resource Protection capacity building and training project is intended to support enforcement and monitoring of operating rules and compliance with the Ecological Reserve for the Olifants-Doring catchment through the transfer of the relevant technical information from these studies to the responsible DWAF staff and members of the proposed Olifants-Doorn Catchment Management Agency (CMA).

  • Olifants/Doring River Reserve Determination

    Year: 2003 – 2006 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry: Resource Directed Measures | Location: South Africa

    Project leader:  This study objective was to recommend a comprehensive Ecological Water Requirement (EWR) for water quality and quantity, for various reaches of the Olifants and Doring Rivers, two key tributaries, and the Olifants River estuary.  The study also reviewed the importance of groundwater to current and potential users in the catchment.  An additional deliverable was a River and Estuarine Health monitoring programme for assessing the efficacy of management actions in the Olifants-Doring Basin.

  • Options for the Olifants River

    Year: 2007 | Client: Retha Stassen/IUCN | Location: South Africa

    Guidance for the IUCN initiatives related to support for the Ecological Reserve in the Olifants catchment, specifically suggestions for the direction of these initiative and mapping a suggested way forward.

  • Outeniqua Aquatic Ecosystems – Reserve Determinations

    Year: 2007 – 2009 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry | Location: South Africa

    Environmental Water Requirement determinations for a suite of coastal rivers (Moordkuils, Groot Brak, Maalgate, Gwaing, Kaaimans, Goukamma and Noetsie) two estuaries and groundwater in the Outeniqua region of SA, with a strong capacity-building component.  The project has been extended to include design of integration methods for river, estuary, wetlands and groundwater reserve assessments, information provision for the Classification Process and guidelines for implementation.

  • Palmiet River Catchment Management Plan (Phase 1)

    Year: 1996 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry | Location: South Africa

    Phase 1 of the Palmiet Catchment Management Plan (PCMP) had the following objectives: to identify and source existing information on the Palmiet River catchment that could be used to inform the PCMP; to summarise the nature of the existing information; to assess the reliability of the existing information and its applicability to the PCMP; to determine additional information required for the PCMP; to recommend actions required to gather the additional information; to provide a work programme and a cost estimate for the collection of the additional information.

  • Palmiet River IFR Assessment

    Year: 1997 – 1998 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry: Project Planning | Location: South Africa

    Determination of the Instream Flow Requirements of the Palmiet River, Western Cape as part of the Feasibility studies for the proposed Palmiet Phase 1 development.  Responsibilities include: co-ordination of all IFR activities, Habitat Integrity Assessment of the Palmiet River within the study area.

  • River Health Programme Reports

    Year: 2001 – 2008 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry | Location: South Africa

    Reviewer of South African River Health Programme Reports in various river systems, including Olifants-Doring River, rivers of the Gourtiz Water Management Area, rivers of Cape Town and the Berg River.

  • River Maintenance Practitioners Manual

    Year: 2000 | Client: Cape Metropolitan Council | Location: South Africa

    Preparation of a river-by-river maintenance guide manual for the rivers within the Cape Town Metropole, with respect to most suitable management practice and consideration of ecological sensitivity needs.

  • Skuifraam Dam – Sizing of the outlet structures

    Year: 1998 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry/ Ninham Shand Consulting Engineers | Location: South Africa

    Determination of the Instream Flow Requirements of the Wit River, Bains Kloof, as part of the Feasibility studies for the proposed Wit River Dam.  Responsibilities include: project design, proposal production, co-ordination of IFR Team and all IFR activities, Habitat Specialist inputinto the design of the outlet structure in Skuifraam Dam on the Berg River, Western Cape, to facilitate the release of the channel maintenance floods requested as part of the IFR for the Berg River.

  • 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.

  • Water Resources Classification System (WRCS)

    Year: 2005 – 2006 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry: Project Planning | Location: South Africa

    The WRCS, which is required by the SA National Water Act (No. 36 of 1998), is a set of guidelines and procedures for determining the desired characteristics of a water resource, and is represented by a Management Class (MC). The MC outlines those attributes that the custodian (DWAF) and society require of different water resources. The WRCS is to be used in a consultative process to classify water resources to help facilitate a balance between protection and use of the nation’s water resources. The economic, social and ecological implications of choosing a MC will need to be established and communicated to all Interested and Affected Parties during the Classification Process.  The outcome of a Classification Process  using the WRCS is a target Health class for every significant water resource in a basin, plus a monitoring programme for evaluating future management of the basin.  The WRCS is currently undergoing the Gazetting Process for incorporation into South Africa’s water law.

  • Western Cape Reconciliation Strategy

    Year: 2008 – 2011 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry/ Ninham Shand Consulting Engineers | Location: South Africa

    Three-year study that aims to lead to the implementation of one or more previously identified interventions for water supply to urban centres in the Western Cape.

  • Western Cape Reconciliation Study (Phase 2)

    Year: 2005 – 2006 | Client: City of Cape Town/DWAF | Location: South Africa

    A comprehensive study of the water resources supplying the Greater Cape Town Metropolitan Area leading to a Strategy for meeting the city’s water requirements in a sustainable manner.

  • Western Cape System Analysis: Ranking options (Phase 1)

    Year: 1995 | Client: Department of Water Affairs and Forestry | Location: South Africa

    A project conducted in close liaison with Interested and Affected Parties to assess the water resource developments proposed in the Western Cape System Analysis in terms of the following:  the conservation status (habitat integrity), relative rehabilitation potential and relative ecological importance, within a regional context, of the rivers on which they are situated; the potential impacts of inundation on vegetation and fish; the viability of the projected yields of each scheme, from an environmental perspective and with respect to the needs of the downstream riverine ecosystems, taking into account their relative ecological importance.

  • 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.

  • Wit River IFR Assessment

    Year: 1997 | Client: Paarl Municipality | Location: South Africa

    Integrity Assessment of the Wit and Breede Rivers within the study area, liaison with Interested and Affected Parties.  The project was terminated in March 1998, following protest against the dam.

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