Freshwater Consulting’s members have experience in the following areas of aquatic resource management:
Ecological input into the design and management of artificial wetland systems
Water quality monitoring and management.
Production of wetland monitoring and management plans.
Wetland and river rehabilitation.
River corridor management, impact control and rehabilitation strategies, and catchment management plans, including managing the implementation of Environmental Management Plans during the process of infrastructural development (e.g. dams, roads).
Assessments of instream flow requirements for rivers, including workshop design and organisation, specialist input (invertebrate and water quality) and report compilation.
Biomonitoring of water quality and river health, including the South African Scoring System (SASS) and Habitat Integrity assessment.
Situation assessment and monitoring of rivers and wetlands in urban and natural environments.
Impact assessment of urban development on rivers and wetlands.
Impact assessments of proposed dams and altered flow regimes.
Assessment of the ecological implications of river engineering strategies.
General landscape and river/wetland rehabilitation.
