Water
Industry leading water solutions
A full range of integrated assessment and design services to manage water for better outcomes in civil, tunnelling, mining and dams.
- Hydrology
- Hydraulics
- Mine water management
- Water resources
- Flooding
- Rivers and streams
- Stormwater
- Groundwater and seepage.
Capabilities
Hydrology
PSM provides practical solutions for:
- Rainfall and runoff modelling
- Droughts and flooding
- Water storage and supply
- River systems.
Mine water
Customised engineering designs for your mine water balance:
- Water detention and treatment
- Runoff management
- Water supply
- Disposal
- Dewatering
- Drainage and channel design
Water resources
Managing and assessing water resources, including:
- Resource characterisation
- Environmental monitoring
- Resource allocation
- Flow estimation and gauging
- Drought management.
Flooding
Assessing flood risk, including:
- Rainfall and runoff modelling
- Flood routing
- Hydrodynamic modelling
- Flood storage and detention.
Rivers and streams
Assessing and managing:
- Embankment stabilisation
- Chutes and weirs
- Diversions
- River training
- Energy dissipation and gradient control
- Sediment transport
- Rehabilitation
- Dredging
Stormwater
Design of drainage systems and management of stormwater.
Groundwater and Seepage (hydrogeology)
Protection and sustainable use of sub-surface water:
- Resource characterisation
- Well design and installation
- Aquifer testing and groundwater monitoring
- Groundwater modelling using 2D and 3D analysis
- Dewatering
- Tunnel design pressures and inflows
- Stability of slopes and embankments
Hydraulics
Analysis and design of water flow systems including open-channel flows, river system, pipeline designs, hydraulic structures.
1D, 2D and 3D numerical modelling of flow systems as well as design and supervision of scale physical hydraulic models.
Design of hydraulic structures:
- Pump intakes
- Channel intakes
- Outlets
- Spillways
- River diversions
- Weirs and levees
- Gates
Design of drainage systems:
- Culverts
- Chutes
- Open channels
- Gutters, pits and pipes
Designs for protection against scour and erosion in earth and rock:
- Sediment transport
- Channel or embankment stabilisation
- Stable chute design
- Erosion protection – rip-rap, gabions, vegetation
- Scour of spillways and unlined channels
Design of pipe and open channel networks
Hydrodynamic modelling:
- 1D, 2D and 3D numerical flow modelling
- Design and supervision of physical hydraulic models
Fluvial Geomorphology
Monitoring response to change in river systems.
Managing the impact on the system’s equilibrium.
Numerical simulation of sediment transport and scour over land and through river systems.
