ECOFACT have extensive experience in the provision of services to support and inform water supply schemes for local authorities and private developments.

We incorporate both ecological and hydrological expertise to provide a suite of services which cover both the water supply and abstraction constraints and also the pipeline route selection and construction elements.

ECOFACT can provide the following services for Water Supply Schemes:

• Water quality monitoring and water quality modelling
• Hydro-ecological assessments
• Fisheries and aquatic Ecological Impact Assessments for abstractions
• Fish stock assessments and fisheries management recommendations
• Appropriate Assessments for schemes affecting SAC or SPA sites
• Protected aquatic species surveys and management
• Pipeline route selection studies
• Ecological Impact Assessment and habitat mapping for the pipeline route
• Ecological and water quality monitoring for the construction phase of works