CCI’s Environmental Specialists are qualified and experienced as water quality monitors and have been providing this specialized service since 2004.
Several of CCI’s field personnel are Qualified Aquatic Environmental Specialists (QAES). Over the years, CCI has implemented water quality monitoring regimes for hundreds of watercourse crossings, from unnamed creeks to large rivers.
We know that the social license to complete water quality monitoring projects is linked to the protection of rivers, water and habitat. CCI’s state of the art monitoring equipment and planning process ensures when a project goes to construction, the team can measure and electronically record any variation in water quality that arises and could possibly have an adverse effect. CCI’s system, working with the environmental specialist on site, can clearly define any events if they were to occur, and determine the potential impact. CCI can then provide solutions to mitigate the problem and provide solutions to move forward with the project.
Services include:
- Providing guidance for regulatory requirements applicable to crossings:
- Transport Canada – Navigable Waters
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Provincial Government Agencies
- Developing water quality monitoring plans and providing 24/7 monitoring through:
- Turbidity equipment (handheld to satellite tracked units)
- Conducting frac walks to identify inadvertent releases of drilling fluid
- Daily client reports with historical data logging and photos
- Provide frac-out response plans, monitoring, reporting and clean up expertise and response trailers
- Frac-out plume modeling (one dimensional or two-dimensional models)
- Fish salvage services (electrofishing, trapping and netting)
- Full environmental inspection services
- Prepare post-construction report and review with client
- Watercourse classification and habitat assessments
- Watercourse reclamation services