Water Engineering

WATER RESOURCES PLANNING

Hydrology

Rainfall and runoff modelling
Flood hydrology
Hydrological analyses

Groundwater

Sufficiency analyses
Water quality determinations
Assessment, planning and design of borehole infrastructure

Integrated Water Resources Management and Systems Analyses

Water resources yield modelling
User sectors, analysis of user demand patterns and norms as well as night flows
Identification of water saving measures and problem areas
Environmental releases and reserves
Financial analyses, including those of debtors and the financial position of local authorities with regard to the costs and revenues pertaining to water services
Cost and tariff analyses and calculations

WATER AND WASTE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLANNING

The development and maintenance of water supply infrastructure is essential to meet the growing requirements of the population, and LCE has extensive experience in the planning, design and implementation of water and sewerage related infrastructure, from regional schemes and urban distribution systems to rural water supply schemes, water transfer schemes, river abstraction works, dams, reservoirs, canals, pump stations, pipelines and hydropower schemes. The services provided in these fields of expertise include:

Feasibility investigations

Evaluation of existing infrastructure
Determination of service requirements
Planning and design of facilities
Preparation of infrastructure master plans

Infrastructure Design

Setting up of design standards
Sizing of infrastructure
Cost analyses
Financial, economic and tariff studies
Optimisation and phasing of infrastructure and implementation

Sanitation

Physical infrastructure condition assessment
Infrastructure capacity assessment
Planning and design of water treatment processes
Waste water re-use
Feasibility analyses regarding different options of water treatment
Detailed design of water treatment facilities
Detailed design of sewer pump stations, pipelines and other associated infrastructure