Three triggers that bring groundwater obligations to your project
- Conditions of consent. Many DAs in SEQ and NSW now include groundwater monitoring conditions, particularly where development is in proximity to a sensitive receiving environment, intersects shallow groundwater, or involves dewatering.
- Contaminated land management. Where a Site Audit Statement or Environmental Management Plan attaches groundwater monitoring obligations to ongoing land use.
- Dewatering and water licensing. Construction dewatering that requires a water licence or environmental authority comes with groundwater monitoring requirements attached.
What we do
- Bore network design. Monitoring bore locations specified to your site geology, groundwater flow conditions, and monitoring objectives. We don't over-specify bores you don't need; we don't under-specify and find ourselves unable to demonstrate compliance.
- Bore installation oversight. Drilling contractor procurement, drilling oversight, bore construction documentation, and bore development.
- Water level monitoring. Regular groundwater level monitoring against trigger levels, with data reported in the format your consent condition or licence requires.
- Water quality monitoring. Sampling programs designed against the relevant water quality guideline and the parameters specified in your consent. All samples submitted to NATA-accredited laboratories.
- Data management and trend analysis. Monitoring data managed as a longitudinal dataset, with trend analysis applied to identify changes before they become regulatory problems.
- Regulatory reporting. Reports prepared in the format your consent condition, licence, or audit statement requires, lodged on time, every time.
What it costs
Groundwater monitoring is typically a long-running engagement. We structure fees as an annual program fee covering bore network maintenance, regular monitoring rounds, data management, and regulatory reporting. Setup and bore installation are quoted separately.