Bowden Environmental are proud to offer you services in the following categories. Our main speciality is resource consent applications and variations; in particular groundwater, surface water, effluent discharges, land use, and gravel extraction. Farm Environmental Plans for the red nutrient zoned areas of the Canterbury Plains are due from 1st January 2017. Is yours completed? We can help you with this. 

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

GROUNDWATER
• Groundwater resource consent applications
• Water availability assessment
• Environmental impact assessment
• Aquifer testing and analysis
• Flow rate testing and efficiency calculations
• Analysis and mitigation of potentially adverse effects (i.e. interference effects, stream depletion etc.)
• Flow and contaminated groundwater modelling
• Contamination site remediation

SURFACE WATER
• Surface water take, discharge, or diversion consents
• Landuse and disturb river bed consents
• Assessment of the effects on the environment
• Mitigation, remediation, and design
• River flow gauging and reliability assessment
• Flood assessment, protection, and mitigation
• Ecological Assessment

EFFLUENT DISCHARGES
• All aspects of resource consent applications relating to effluent discharges whether it be a piggery, dairy farm, or other livestock operation
• Effects modelling and mitigation design
• Site investigation and water quality analysis
• Seepage testing of Effluent Storage Ponds 

LAND USE
• Farm Environmental Plans 
• Resource consents       

DUE DILLIEGENCE
• Review of consents        

MONITORING AND COMPLIANCE
• Resource consent compliance
• Groundwater level monitoring
• Aquifer testing for maximum rate estimation
• Industrial fluid flow measurement (e.g. petroleum, TCE, alcohol, salt water etc.)

ADVOCACY
• Regional Council and Environment Court
• Consent Negotiation