We deliver solutions to our clients every day by combining our industry understanding and depth of technical excellence across the principal service areas of Infrastructure, Environment and International Development.
Alzia Forage provides an integrated approach to water quality services and water supply options that support sound management choices and anticipate future water demands.
Alzia Forage’s specialists understand difficult challenges, present multiple perspectives, and work with stakeholders on building cost-efficient, sustainable approaches to solve complex water issues. We partner on projects, providing services such as identifying feasible water sources, forecasting regulatory issues, supporting stakeholder integration, and developing balanced water portfolios.
Surface water sources were investigated through a comprehensive review of hydrogeology data, as well as contaminated sites and other factors affecting water quality. Alzia Forage’s teams then mobilised to the field to collect water samples from prospective sites following strict sampling and handling criteria. Our experts monitored these sites through the course of the year looking at summer and winter flows, as well as sediment and in-stream ecology.
Groundwater can be a lifesaving resource in times of drought and a cost-effective way to store seasonal water supplies. It can be a critical resource but equally a significant hindrance to mining and construction projects and can be a pathway for contaminants or indispensable source of water for the environment.
Soils and rock containing metalliferous sulfides can, if disturbed by excavation or drainage, react with the atmosphere to oxidize and produce acidic, saline, and metalliferous drainage (AMD) associated with quarrying and mining or disturbance of acid sulfate soils (ASS).
Our clients require reliable and sustainable water supplies, predictable inflow rates and groundwater management costs and confidence that the risks of impacts of their projects on groundwater and surface water quality, other groundwater users, and groundwater-dependent ecosystems are minimized.
Acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD) or acid rock drainage (ARD) assessment
Acid sulfate soils (ASS) assessment and management
Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR), Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), or Water Banking
Borefield design and installation
Dam seepage assessment
Dewatering investigations and groundwater management for excavations, mines, and tunnels
Down-hole geophysics and camera investigations
Groundwater contamination assessment, remediation, and management
Groundwater exploration, data acquisition, resource assessment, development, and management
Groundwater impact studies
Integrated surface water and groundwater flow and contaminant transportion modeling
Soil salinity risk assessment and management
Our hydrogeology services are delivered by teams of integrated professionals around the world and can provide local knowledge backed up by global experience. Our team members range from cost-effective but experienced field personnel to hydrogeologists, modelers related disciplines with over 30 years of experience.
WSP USA offers comprehensive consulting services in every facet of hydrogeology. Areas of expertise include hydrogeologic and groundwater resource assessments, environmental investigations, and numerical groundwater flow and contaminant fate and transport modeling. We have specialized expertise in assessing construction and mine dewatering projects and developing innovative water management approaches. Our team continues to maintain state-of-the-art capabilities to accurately and cost-effectively characterize contaminated sites, especially those that have a complicated groundwater component. We have extensive experience in conducting contaminant investigations in unconsolidated soil and bedrock environments and at sites where groundwater and surface water interact.
Our hydrogeologists apply scientific knowledge and analysis to understand groundwater-related issues, including assessing the quantity, quality and availability of groundwater.
Water supply feasibility analysis
Lineament analysis to delineate bedrock fractures
Subsurface investigation to delineate shallow aquifers
Surface and borehole geophysics to delineate well targets
Geologic mapping
Grain size analysis and well-screen design
Drilling supervision and hydrogeologic logging
Well rehabilitation and development
Permitting for construction and withdrawal
Well performance and safe yield testing (pumping tests)
Operational system testing
Water balance assessment, demand calculation and recharge analysis
Hydrogeologic research and GIS mapping
Hydrogeologic-impact assessment
Sensitive receptor survey
Watershed analysis for surface water supplies
Wetland hydrology studies
Water-quality testing
Water conservation evaluation and planning
Pond hydrology studies
Pond siting and design
Pond bathymetry surveys and dredging analysis
Environmental testing for disposition of pond dredge spoils
Groundwater and surface water modeling