Our services to the engineering sector include:
- Groundwater feasibility studies
- Groundwater development and supply
- Groundwater modelling
- Stormwater Management Plans
- Flood line assessments
- Mine water and dewatering assessments
- Legislative requirements (BARs, EIAs and WULAs)
- Environmental compliance monitoring and audits
- Geophysical surveys
- Geohazard assessments
- Contamination assessments
- Development and implementation of water strategies
- GIS and remote sensing solutions (NDVI, MSI and terrain analysis)
Some of our clients and partners include:
Contact us today for your groundwater and environmental solution!
Umvoto in the Engineering Sector
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Groundwater Monitoring – Why is it so important?
Why is groundwater monitoring important? Groundwater is a vital water resource that is more frequently being used to meet domestic, agricultural, industrial, and environmental water demands. There are numerous objectives when monitoring groundwater, some of which include: characterising the groundwater system to understand seasonal responses, estimating potential for groundwater development, evaluating or mitigating impacts of…
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Applied Geology’s Role in Resource Exploration
The Earth hosts an abundance of resources that are required for day-to-day living, from groundwater and petroleum to gold and platinum. To access these resources, various applied geology techniques such as geological mapping, the application of advanced geophysics, and exploration drilling are used to assess the surficial and subsurface structures of the Earth’s crust, where…
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How to drill a borehole
When There’s a Borehole, There’s a Way – Drilling for Groundwater Do you require an alternative water supply? Do you want to go off-grid and tap out of the municipal supply? Do you wish to never rely on burst bulk water pipelines? Then we have a solution for you! Installing a borehole is a relatively…
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SOILL Moorreesburg Floodline
Umvoto was appointed by Southern Oil (Pty) Ltd (SOILL) to delineate the 1:100 year floodline on their Moorreesburg property, where their current operations occur and where planned future plant upgrades are to take place. The main objective of the assessment was to determine if the proposed SOILL site development would be impacted by flooding of…
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Calitzdorp Rural Groundwater Augmentation
In 2021 Umvoto was appointed by WEC Consulting Engineers on behalf of Oudtshoorn Local Municipality to drill an exploration borehole for the Calitzdorp Rural Groundwater Augmentation project, with the aim of augmenting the Klein Karoo Rural Water Supply Scheme with groundwater from the TMG in vicinity of the greater Calitzdorp area. The drilling and testing…
