With growing demands on our water resources, both in New Zealand and across the globe, maintaining and enhancing water quality is subject to ever increasing pressure. The need for expert technical inputs to guide and direct water quality managers is critical.
Tonkin & Taylor’s water quality team, comprising environmental scientists, planners and engineers, provides expert services across the full range of specialist water quality areas:
1. Water quality investigations:
Survey design and development
Specialist sampling techniques for surface water, groundwater, and piped water systems
Data analysis and interpretation, including statistical and multivariate techniques
Ecological water quality:
Assessment of water quality impacts on ecosystems
-Water quality restoration for ecosystems
Catchment and Watershed Management:
Land-use analysis
Sanitary inspections
Integrated Catchment Management planning
GIS analysis
Water quality modelling
Policy development
Water quality modelling:
Dilution and dispersion modelling
Pollutant fate and transport modelling
Ecological integration
Pollution assessments:
Pollution incident investigations and strategic advice
Point source discharge pollutant assessments
Diffuse source assessment
Stormwater management:
Stormwater discharge assessments
Stormwater consenting
Stormwater treatment and design
Subdivision low impact design and stormwater minimisation
