EnviroCentre can provide a comprehensive range of services to improve and inform catchment management.  The requirements of the Water Framework Directive, such as the Water Environment and Water Services Act in Scotland, are increasing the importance of the assessment and management of resources with these catchments.

EnviroCentre can provide a range of services to assess and provide solutions to catchment related issues. Core skills in hydrology, hydrogeology, ecology, fisheries, chemistry, geology, geography, engineering and agriculture enable a broad range of problems to be solved.

The assessment and management options are informed by the use of computer models to assess water flow and quality, and are coupled with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for analysis and 3D visualisation.

Key services that EnviroCentre can provide are:

• Water resource management
• Flood risk assessment
• Hydrological and hydrogeological investigations
• Water supply development
• Water quality and flow modelling
• Fisheries science and management
• River corridor, macrophyte and fisheries habitat surveys
• Aquaculture assessments
• Aquatic macro-invertebrate ecology
• River engineering
• Fish pass and fisheries easements
• Economic assessment of measures
• Engineering design and supervision
• Stakeholder involvement
• Public participation and facilitation of workshops
• GIS data management and analysis
• 3D catchment visualisation

For documents relating to catchment management go to the Download area