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Environmental Consultancy and de Joux Consulting offer comprehensive services to prepare resource consent applications, carry out investigations and environmental impact assessments, and assist clients to comply with conditions of their resource consents.

de Joux Consulting specialises in resource consents to divert, take & discharge surface water and to take groundwater.  Environmental Consultancy specialises in resource consent to discharge contaminants to land & air from farm dairy effluent.

We carry out research and prepare resource consent applications, including assessments of environmental effects, and mitigation and remediation design.

We have developed a professional working relation with Regional Council resource management officers over many years and can provide a reliable service at competitive rates.

We can offer the following compliance monitoring services:

For surface water permits

  • Provide, install, maintain and operate automatic water level recorders (telemetry optional);
  • Carry out flow measurements in open races, check for race losses;
  • Provide certification of accuracy of installed in-line water meters;
  • Download water use information from dataloggers (i.e. ABB, SiteLab, SeaMetrics, Prosol & Hydroflow etc), prepare reports and graphs of water usage;
  • Provide water usage reports on a regular basis (daily if telemetry is available);
  • Provide internet access to water use information (requires telemetry & dataloggers);
  • Collect water samples for water quality laboratory analysis and reporting.

 For groundwater permits

  • Provide, install, maintain and operate down-hole automatic water level recorders (telemetry optional);
  • Measure depth to water in bores to required Environment Canterbury standards;
  • Check flow rates in irrigation pipes;
  • Collect and report on water usage from in-line flow meters;
  • Download water use information from dataloggers (i.e. ABB, SiteLab, SeaMetrics, Prosol & Hydroflow etc), prepare reports and graphs of water usage;
  • Provide internet access to water use information (requires telemetry & dataloggers);
  • Provide certification of flow rates from new bores;
  • Provide certification of time taken for bore to recover 95% of pumping drawdown;
  • Provide certification of accuracy of installed in-line water meters;
  • Collect groundwater samples for water quality laboratory analysis and reporting.

Water Quality

All sampling is carried out using the most appropriate scientifically recognised and current methods.  Samples are analysed by laboratories certified for those analyses by an accreditation authority such as International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ) or an equivalent accreditation organisation that has Mutual Recognition Agreement with IANZ.

  • Collect water samples (surface water and groundwater) for water quality laboratory analysis and reporting as prescribed by resource consent conditions;
  • Collect water samples for assessing compliance with the Ministry of Health's New Zealand Drinking Water Standard 2000;
  • Collect water samples for the analysis of cyanobacteria and algae in freshwaters;
  • Collect soil samples for laboratory analysis and reporting i.e. timber treatment plants.

 

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