WATER
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT
Protecting water resources and developing and implementing remediation
strategies for polluted waterways and water bodies are core activities
of Earth Systems.
Key services
provided by Earth Systems in this area include:
Water
resource evaluation, engineering, monitoring and quality assessment
Water
pollution reduction and water reuse assessments
Minesite
water quality assessments
Treatment
strategies and advice for potable water and wastewater streams
Routine
or emergency response water and wastewater treatment
Pit lake
water investigations, limnology and treatment
River
and catchment geomorphology and landuse studies
Catchment
management
Hydrological,
hydrogeological and hydraulic investigations
Erosion
control
Dredging
environmental assessment
Environmental
compliance monitoring and audits
Ecological
assessment of risk and impacts
Wetland
ecology and technology
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| Earth Systems has provided water resource management
and water treatment advice to various water authorities and
industry sectors, including coal mines in Australia, Indonesia
and South Africa. |
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Recent projects completed by Earth Systems include:
Development
of acid drainage management strategies and provision of advice on
appropriate water treatment facilities at open cut and port facilities
at a number of coal operations in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Evaluation
of the thermodynamic and logistic feasibility of utilising landfill
gas to assist in the management of leachate by facilitating evaporative
loss at a putrescible landfill in Sunbury, Victoria.
Advice and
assistance in the development of strategies to manage acid and copper
affected drainage from a large Cu-Au mine in Indonesia.
Development
and implementation of a low-cost methodology for the treatment of
small drinking water storage ponds to lower turbidity and improve
colour for the Goulburn Valley and Grampians Water Authorities.
Development
of treatment methodologies for a water body affected by high concentrations
of cyanide at a gold mines in the Northern Territory and Queensland.
Program
design, monitoring and treatment of acid drainage with elevated metal
concentrations to a standard suitable for discharge at the Savage
River Mine, Tasmania.
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