Earth Systems - Environmental Research and Consulting

CONSULTING SERVICES

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

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.

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.