Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd.

Our mine water experience includes:

Mine Dewatering Design: Dewatering system design and specification, installation and commissioning, performance monitoring (including predictive impact, infrastructure and design modelling) and operational advice integrated into long-range mine plans.
Mine Water Supply (groundwater-based): Full range of investigation from first-pass exploration to detailed borefield design and impact modelling, production and monitoring bore installation and commissioning, borefield completion and performance assessment and reporting, operational advice for the life-of-mine water supply, bore rehabilitation advice and water reticulation design.
Water Extraction Licensing, Permitting and Regulatory Liaison: Commonly involves liaison with various provincial/state, territory and federal regulatory bodies, usually in parallel with legal and/or tenure applications and permits.
Total Mine Water Management Solutions: Regional groundwater investigations, groundwater use surveys, water balance investigations, water excess/deficit evaluation, groundwater–surface water interaction studies, and integration with surface hydrology components and mine planning information.
Water Audits: Review of total mine water use from dust control and grey water to tailings and waste water disposal. Water use can be compared to industry and company norms, opportunities for savings realized and plans prepared to implement identified strategies.
Hydrochemistry/Geochemistry Assessment: Commonly required in conjunction with the above scope items are water quality (and in the case of many mine environments, geochemistry) assessments to allow for end-use design (e.g., suitability of water supply quality or disposal requirements for poor quality dewatering excess) and also to provide technical support for the permitting and approvals process.