Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry

Safeguarding groundwater quality and providing a geochemical understanding that helps prevent and manage groundwater contamination.

Our hydrogeology services help our clients understand and safeguard groundwater quality.

We have extensive experience developing and implementing groundwater monitoring programs and developing effective site water management strategies.

We work with our clients to undertake hydrogeological assessments and gain a comprehensive understanding of their project’s hydrogeological settings.

Our hydrogeochemistry experts provide a geochemical understanding to help manage and prevent groundwater contamination. We do this by applying strategies like determining contaminant transport and identifying attenuation mechanisms.

As resource specialists we are adept undertaking geochemical characterisations of mine waste and tailings.

We have delivered multiple waste rock characterisation programs and waste rock management plans across projects’ life cycles. Progressive and accurate waste rock characterisation is crucial and enables an operation to effectively manage its waste. Failure to determine the best disposal method the first time round or progressively reassess has costly impacts and creates environmental legacy issues.

We use our knowledge and experience across hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry to deliver services like:

  • Undertaking impact and risk assessments to determine contaminant sources
  • Determining groundwater recharge
  • Identifying seepage and developing rehabilitative and management strategies
  • Developing reactive transport models and isotopic tracer studies
  • Undertaking 3D geochemical modeling and geochemical speciation calculations using programs like MODFLOW, MT3DMS, PEST, PHREEQC, MINTEQ and Geochemists Workbench
  • Undertaking aqueous speciation modeling and major ion assessment
  • Undertaking aquifer yield and recharge studies
  • Determining bore placement and providing construction supervision
  • Preparing groundwater resource applications
  • Managing groundwater dependent ecosystems
  • Undertaking and delivering annual water quality reviews
  • Delivering groundwater and seepage investigations
  • Developing and revising groundwater monitoring networks
  • Undertaking pumping and falling head tests.