Mine and infrastructure water-management assessment

Environment · Water · Soils · Spatial

Mine Water Management, Goldsim And Closure-Focused Water Planning.

FWS provides mining water management support from the regulatory, operational and technical perspectives - connecting Environmental Authority requirements, site water inventories, climate variability, infrastructure and practical operating decisions.

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Your Project · The Technical Response

What FWS Can Help With.

Goldsim water balance models can be developed, reviewed or updated to represent pits, dams, catchments, transfers, treatment, controlled releases and operational rules. The focus is not simply the model itself, but the decisions it needs to support and the assumptions that materially influence those decisions.

FWS can also connect mine water balance work with Water Management Plans, EA amendments, Progressive Rehabilitation and Closure Plans (PRCPs), flood modelling, mine rehabilitation, closure drainage and landform evolution modelling (LEM). This provides a more defensible pathway between regulatory commitments, current site conditions and future closure outcomes.

  • Goldsim mine water balances
  • EA Water Management Plans
  • Mine and dam inventories
  • Water release investigations
  • PRCP water assessments
  • Mine rehabilitation and EA amendments
  • Climate and operational scenarios

Relevant Experience

Previous Project Experience.

Selected experience from Reece Fraser’s professional work. Discuss your project to explore which methods and deliverables are appropriate for your site.

  • 01

    Goldsim water balances and Water Management Plans for disused and care-and-maintenance metalliferous mines

  • 02

    Water-harvesting and options assessment for six dam locations and configurations

  • 03

    Mine-water dilution, receiving water assimilative capacity and release assessments for coal and metalliferous EA amendments

  • 04

    ESCP preparation and review incorporating 2D hydraulic modelling

  • 05

    Third-party water-balance calibration and operational water-inventory spreadsheets

  • 06

    Field measurements for landform evolution modelling and erosion-rate assessment

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Bring The Brief. Or Start With The Problem.

Share the site issue, information available, required outputs and timing. FWS can help define the technical work needed - or deliver an already-defined scope.

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0409 063 503reece@fraserws.com.auEnvironment · Water · Soils · Spatial