Ecosure’s aquatic ecologists conducted an aquatic assessment as part of the Environmental Impact Statement for Phase 1 of our client’s runway and terminal upgrade airport expansion project.
The project involved the assessment of environmental values associated with freshwater ecosystems on the Airport site. This included a description of aquatic ecological values, desktop investigations and collation of existing information relating to the ecological values of the sites waterways, baseline field surveys of aquatic ecosystems (physical condition, aquatic flora, macroinvertebrates, fish, sediment quality, physico-chemical surface water quality), an impact assessment for Phase 1 of the airport expansion, derivation of impact mitigation measures, and preparation of EMP components relevant to protecting aquatic ecological values at the airport site.