Groundwater resource development Services
With the recent economic growth in Ireland, the demand for a safe and sustainable water supply for drinking water, industrial and geothermal heating & cooling purposes is increasing.Our team of hydrogeologists provides a client-centred approach to cover all aspects of groundwater resource assessment, resource development and resource management. Our experience serving both private and public clients ranges from pre-planning feasibility studies through to provision of successful turnkey groundwater abstractions.We have extensive experience in offering consultancy services for drinking water schemes - public supply schemes, group water schemes & private water supplies - industrial abstractions, extractive industry (mines & quarries) dewatering purposes, water bottling plants, irrigation supplies, aquaculture supplies and agricultural or drinking water supply purposes.
Our services include:
- Hydrogeological surveys in addition to surface water hydrology, karst hydrology & geomorphology surveys
- Geophysical surveys for resource assessment purposes (associate company Minerex Geophysics Ltd.)
- Water supply, Drinking water testing & analysis
- Design & installation of abstraction & monitoring wells
- Jetted & percussion drilling for overburden monitoring wells
- Design & execution of monitoring programmes for resource assessment purposes
- Percussion drilling for bedrock water wells
- Well & aquifer hydraulic testing
- Pumping test data interpretation & aquifer characterisation
- Assessment of aquifer vulnerability
- Recharge estimation
- Source protection area/ zone of contribution delineation
- Design of source protection measures
- Design of mitigation measures to reduce aquifer contamination potential
- Aquifer & contaminant transport computer modelling (ModFlow, AqteSolv)