Year: 2010 | Client: Element Consulting Engineers | Location: South Africa
An audit of the riparian vegetation of the Koornlands River was undertaken to prepare an exotic plant clearing plan and indigenous riparian vegetation restoration strategy.
Projects
Charlesford weir pumping station upgrade
Year: 2010 | Client: Sharples Environmental Services | Location: South Africa
The impact of a proposed upgrade of the Charlesford weir and increased abstraction from the Knysna River on the Knysna River and estuary were assessed.
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.
Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project
Year: 2011 – 2012 | Client: NESPAK | Location: Kashmir
Environmental Flow assessments for the Neelum and Jhelum Rivers affected by the proposed Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
Cheves Hydropower Environmental Flows Management Plan
Year: 2011 – 2012 | Client: Norconsult: SN Power | Location: Peru
Baseline monitoring in the Huaura and Checras rivers downstream of the Cheves HPP, plus design of the Environmental Flows Management Plan for the Cheves operation.
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.
Mandaya Hydropower Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA)
Year: 2010 – 2011 | Client: Halcrow/ Ethiopian Government | Location: Ethiopia
Appointed to do Ecological Flow determinations using DRIFT for two sites on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia, however, the ESIA was cancelled after the Client decided not to pursue the Mandaya Dam. Project Cancelled after Millennium Dam announced by Ethiopian Government.
Environmental Flow DSS Software
Year: 2009 – 2011 | Client: Water Research Commission | Location: South Africa
Development of Decision Support System (DSS) software to automate the process for Environmental Flow Assessments. The software is different from current DSSs in the field in that it fully incorporates the ecological, social and socio-economic aspects of management options to the same level of detail and sensitivity as the economic and engineering aspects. The DSS is based on advances made in the DRIFT methodology through its application in Southern and East Africa.
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.
Baynes Hydropower Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)
Year: 2009 – 2010 | Client: ERM/ Angola and Namibia Governments | Location: Angola, Namibia
EFlows determinations using DRIFT for three sites on the Cunene River in northern Namibia. The original EFs formed an integral part of the ESIA for the proposed hydropower stations at Baynes Gorge. This project is to update those, and to firm up sediment predictions. The DSS will then be used to assess the influence on the Cunene River ecosystem, and linked livelihoods, of scenarios encompassing development options (new HPP/no new HPP), upstream water abstraction and climate change.