• Lesotho Highland Water Project: IFR Assessments for all phases

    Year: 1997 – 2002 | Client: Lesotho Highlands Development Authority | Location: Lesotho

    Determination of the Instream Flow Requirements of the Senqu, Matsoku and Malibamatso and Senqunyane Rivers, as part of the Feasibility studies for all four phases of the proposed Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Co-leader of all pre-project activities including project design, production of the project proposal and negotiations with the client.  Responsibilities include: co-ordination of an IFR Team of international scientists, co-ordination of all IFR activities, Habitat Integrity Assessment of the Senqu, Matsoku and Malibamatso and Senqunyane Rivers within the study area, report writing and compilation of all major reports.  This project led to the development of DRIFT and several other major projects with LHDA. Joint Venture with SMEC International.

  • Lesotho Highlands Water Project (Phase 2)

    Year: 2007 – 2008 | Client: Lesotho Highlands Development Authority | Location: Lesotho

    River Health and Environmental Flow data provision and advice related to the proposed Polihali Dam on the Senqu River.  Co-ordination of all downstream ecological activities, input to decision-making procedures, dam design adjustments and operating rules for the proposed dam.

     

  • LHWP: Instream Flow Requirements Monitoring Programme

    Year: 2005 – 2006 | Client: Lesotho Highlands Development Authority | Location: Lesotho

    The objectives of Contract LHDA 1237 were to ensure that LHDA’s biophysical monitoring programme was running smoothly, in that LHDA possessed the in-house capacity (i.e., in terms of data collection and analysis) to carry out all the tasks associated with IFR monitoring; data collection and analytical tasks were meeting the goals and objectives set out in the IFR Policy and Procedures and were providing information to: determine if the desired river conditions set out in the IFR Policy were being achieved; and if not; to provide information enable decisions to be made on appropriate action to be taken.

  • Metolong Dam

    Year: 2011 – 2012 | Client: Metolong Authority | Location: Lesotho

    Baseline monitoring and training of local staff in the Phuthiatsana River downstream of the Metolong Dam.  Plus design of the Environmental Flows Policy for the Metolong Dam.

  • Metolong Dam Environmental Flow Assessment

    Year: 2007 | Client: Lesotho Department of Water Affairs/SMEC International | Location: Lesotho

    Ecological Flow determinations using DRIFT for the Phuthiatsana River is situated in western Lesotho near Thaba Bosiu. It is also known as the Little Caledon River, and is a tributary of the Caledon River. The EFs formed an integral part of the EIA for the proposed Metolong Dam intended to supply the capital, Maseru.

  • Update of PipeDreams (WWF): Case Study 3, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

    Year: 2009 | Client: WWF | Location: Lesotho

    Update of a chapter in PipeDreams (WWF): Case Study 3, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project for World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

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