HGEO provides a full range of groundwater services for Infrastructure, Water Supply, and Mining and Gas projects. We are based in Sydney, but regularly work all across Australia.

Groundwater assessment

HGEO provides groundwater management services for mining, infrastructure, agriculture and water supply projects. We provide advice and services in all aspects of technical assessment from primary data analysis and monitoring to numerical modelling and reporting for project approvals:

• Site assessments and monitoring network design
• Site investigations
• Data review and management
• Site conceptualisation and graphics
• Numerical impact modelling
• Reporting and presentation
• Feasibility studies

Regulatory reporting

Cost effective analysis and reporting to satisfy regulatory requirements and licence conditions. We apply statistical and graphical methods to assess and communicate compliance against environmental threshold levels and policy considerations.

• Concise, professional reporting
• Data analysis and professional graphics
• Statistical analysis of threshold compliance
• Management plans

Peer Review

HGEO offers independent peer review of groundwater impact assessments, groundwater models and reports. Reviews are undertaken in accordance with best practice and with reference to relevant Australian modelling and reporting standards and guidelines.

• Peer review
• Model and data verification
• Expert witness reports

Groundwater investigations

HGEO designs and manages specialist investigations of groundwater conditions and specific issues.

• Groundwater inflow and seepage
• Aquifer characterisation (including pumping test analysis)
• Application of natural and artificial water tracers to establish flow paths
• Water quality assessment
• Application of water chemistry and isotopes to determine groundwater source and age