Consulting
Drinking Water Quality
Principal Consultants
Meet some of our principal consultants specialising in drinking water quality.
Dr Christobel Ferguson – Principal Consultant
Dr Christobel Ferguson has more than 15 years' experience specialising in water microbiology and pathogen risk assessment and catchment management.
Christobel's key capabilities include water quality assessments, particularly microbiological quality (marine, estuarine and freshwater systems) and identification and characterisation of sources of faecal contamination in rural and urban systems.
She is also recognised for her expertise in catchment modelling and management planning, including hazard analysis and risk management. Christobel is well known throughout the water industry, and is a board member of AWA and actively involved with the American Water Works Association, IWA, the Water Environment Research Foundation and the WateReuse Association.
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Stuart Longmuir – Principal Engineer (Treatment)
Stuart Longmuir is a Civil Engineer with extensive experience in the planning and development of water and wastewater projects.
Over the past 20 years, he has led multidisciplinary teams to develop a number of complex discrete projects.
Stuart was heavily involved in the development of major water treatment plants at Prospect and Macarthur for Sydney Water, and was a specialist consultant to CDM Singapore for upgrade studies for four large-scale water treatment plants.
Stuart has led many water reuse projects for municipal and industrial clients, including the design of a zero discharge site for a major dairy processing facility with a wastewater flow of 300 ML/a.
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Chris Pipe-Martin – Principal Process Scientist
Chris Pipe-Martin is a scientist with over 22 years' experience in the water industry, with particular expertise in water quality, treatment and distribution systems for potable and recycled water. He also has extensive experience with groundwater and wastewater issues.
Chris spent more than 10 years in senior scientific and managerial roles at CabWater in South-East Queensland.
He was heavily involved in the process selection, design, commissioning and operation of several water and wastewater treatment plants, including the South Caboolture Water Recycling Plant (10 ML/d), the Bribie Island Aquifer Treatment Plant (5 ML/d) and the South Caboolture Sewage Treatment Plant (12 ML/d).
Chris has developed water quality management and improvement plans, and is a qualified drinking water quality auditor.
He has also been involved in ecosystem monitoring for many years and has been a steering committee member for the Healthy Waterways Ecological Health Monitoring Program.