Environmental Monitoring
Our experience in Environmental Monitoring covers a wide range of sectors. In recent years this has included:
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Loch level and water quality monitoring for hydropower proposals;
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Nutrient assessment for new pond creation/eutrophication assessment;
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Pre-construction monitoring for infrastructure to develop baseline water quality envelopes;
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Spot and Continuous flow gauging for resource assessment and CAR licensing;
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Assessment of contaminated site runoff to determine treatment options;
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We make use of both in-situ and laboratory analysis of water quality, depending on the requirements of the project. We partner with several different laboratories and courier services and can provide temperature controlled transport of samples ourselves where needed. We make use of the latest equipment which is regularly calibrated and has full traceability of both the time and location of sampling.
Some examples of what we do are shown below but if you have a bespoke monitoring requirement please let us know.
Pre-construction (baseline) water quality monitoring seeks to characterise the water quality prior to any site activity. This helps to ensure that any construction-related effect can be adequately separated from background variation.
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We undertake pre-construction monitoring for sites with a pre-determined monitoring schedule and can also develop our own suitable for approval by the planning authority and/or SEPA.
Nutrient Assessment of existing ponds and/or for new pond creation helps to understand whether nutrients are likely to pose a problem. Nutrient analysis is undertaken in a UKAS accredited laboratory for analysis and reporting by us.
Hydrometric monitoring of small burns and lochs is undertaken for Private Water Supply assessment, rainfall-runoff model calibration/validation and hydropower resource assessment.
