The ecological health of our waterways has become a key issue in land and water management and is reflected in growing community concerns about the condition of our most valuable resource – water.

Download Aquatic Ecology and Biological Monitoring Fact Sheet (pdf 523KB)

Ecowise can help your company meet regulatory and engineering requirements for wastewater treatment.

Download Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems Fact Sheet (pdf 103KB)

Ecowise plays an important role in ensuring water authorities comply with drinking water standards and regulations.

Download Ecowise Environmental
audits ensure safe drinking water in Australia (pdf 1,082kb)

Irrigation in the ORIA potentially threatens stygofaunal populations through increases in water table levels, and subsequently increasing salinity.

Download Ord River Irrigation Area Stage 2 Expansion Groundwater Fauna Study (pdf 53kb)

Ecowise Environmental implement three biological monitoring programs for SCA using extensive knowledge of the SCA catchments.

Download Sydney Catchment Authority biomonitoring programs (pdf 57kb)

Ecowise was commissioned by the State Shellfish Control Authority Fisheries Victoria, Department of Primary Industries to undertake the monitoring, shoreline survey, sanitary survey, harvest area classification and reporting components of the VSQAP.

Download Victorian Shellfish Quality Assurance Program (pdf 113kb)

Ecowise assists QAL to meet conditions in their stringent Development Approval issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Download Compliance
Monitoring for Queensland Alumina Limited (pdf 258kb)

The Ecowise Instrument Group has designed and constructed more than a dozen water quality trailers since 1998. Each trailer may be easily deployed at a variety of sites for varying purposes, including monitoring of trade waste discharge, river and stream flows. The trailers are ideal tools for Environmental Protection Authorities (EPA’s), water supply authorities, mining and geotechnical industries, port authorities, and anyone wanting a mobile remote monitoring solution.

Download Custom built systems - mobile water quality trailers (pdf 970kb)

This project involves dust, air, and water sampling, collection of data from all loggers, and data logger maintenance.

Download Data Management, Wilpinjong Coal Mine, NSW (pdf 746kb)

Ecowise assists Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) to monitor and report on environmental conditions for compliance, operational and resource purposes.

Download Environmental Compliance Monitoring for Lihir Gold Limited, Papua New Guinea (pdf 315kb)

This project involves the design, installation and operation on an environmental monitoring and telemetry network.

Download Environmental Monitoring & Telemetry Network (pdf 1,015kb)

The Instrument Group has been involved with the project for two years and were contracted to build, install and commission a number of gauging stations.

Download Hydrological Monitoring for Gold Ridge Mining Limited (pdf 257kb)

Ecowise was commissioned to carry out an investigation of the water supply issues in the island of Lifuka in the Ha’apai group of Tonga and then oversee the implementation on the appropriate groundwater improvements.

International Water Infrastructure Project (pdf 337kb)

Ecowise recently concluded a five and a half year AUD$4.6M project for the five member countries of the Mekong River Commission. The project, funded by the Australian Government and managed by SAGRIC International Pty Ltd, a part of the Coffey group of companies, was designed to assist with the sustainable management strategy of one of the world’s largest and heavily populated waterways – the Mekong River.

International Water Management Project (pdf 772kb)

Ecowise install and operate 18 critical billing sites for Melbourne Water's water supply, drainage and sewerage services.

Download Melbourne Hydrographic Billing Sites (pdf 274kb)

This project involves the operation and maintenance of 400 meteorological and hydrological stations on behalf of Melbourne's water utility company.

Download Melbourne Hydrographic Maintenance Services (pdf 213kb)

On May 21 1998, heavy rainfall in the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey triggered a devastating flood estimated to have been anywhere between a one in 200 to a one in 1000 year occurrence (depending on location). A region of about 37,000 square kilometres with a population of about 2.2 million was affected and constituted the worst flooding of the last century. The flooding was followed by several hundred landslides and caused an estimated US$500 million worth of damage.

Turkey Emergency Flood and Earthquake Recovery (TEFER) project (pdf 2,722kb)

Ecowise operates a number of critical stations within the Cotter and Murrumbidgee Catchments, which are significant components of Canberra's water supply.

Download Water Infrastructure Management (pdf 229kb)

In 2004, Ecowise established a collaborative four year research project with the University of New England (UNE) and the Western Australian Museum to study aspects of the biology, ecology and taxonomy of stygofauna.

Download Stygofauna (pdf 160kb)

This project aims to determine if the type of Cryptosporidium present is of pathogenic risk to humans.

Download Genotyping Cryptosporidium (pdf 65kb)

Novel methods that target biofilm development and dispersal may assist in the provision of improved water quality in water reticulation.

Download Molecular toolbox for the analysis and control of biofilms in industrial water distribution systems (pdf 79kb)

By monitoring the population abundance trends of important bacteria, we are able to correlate their occurrence with plant performance to assist in operational requirements.

Download Study of bacterial populations and process operations in wastewater treatment plants (pdf 61kb)