Bohlweki Environmental (Pty) Ltd

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Service Lines - Waste and Water Management

Bohlweki-SSI Environmental offers waste and water management services to various sectors, including local, provincial and national government, mining, industrial and the construction sectors. Our experienced staff strives to provide environmental services with the aim of fulfilling an organisation's local and international obligations within the required legal frameworks. The core areas of focus include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

Waste Management and Landfill Siting
The Bohlweki-SSI Environmental team has a detailed understanding and practical experience in the field of waste management planning and management. Particular services entail:

Development of Integrated Waste Management Plans (as required by the recently developed Waste Management Bill)
Feasibility studies and the development of waste management systems
Strategic advice regarding the management of existing waste management sites
The studies required for environmental authorisations for the development of waste management facilities (also refer to our Environmental Impact Reporting and Authorisation Applications Service Line)
Development of Closure and Rehabilitation Plans for existing waste management facilities
Permit and licence applications to National Government
Life Cycle Assessment of waste management operations
Development of waste management strategies including:
- waste minimisation and resource recovery strategies
- education and awareness strategies.

Water and Wastewater Management
Water is the life support for all things and the promise of growth and prosperity. The way in which we, as a society, put our water to use is coming under increasing scrutiny and intensifying management. We will have to stretch our understanding and apply our wisdom even more creatively if our aspirations for the growth and development of our society are not to be constrained as a result of limited water resources.

In 1998, the fledgling democratic government of South Africa introduced the National Water Act (No. 36 of 1998), a world-class piece of legislation, to enable South Africa to realise its ultimate vision of sustainable use of water for the benefit of all users. Bohlweki-SSI Environmental can facilitate the fulfilling of an organisation's legislative requirements in terms of the National Water Act.

Integrated Water and Catchment Management
Services are wide ranging and include:

Establishment of Catchment Management Strategies or stand alone components thereof, such as Water Quality Management Strategies and Feasibility Studies
River Health Assessments and State of Rivers reporting
Water use authorisation applications and supporting technical reports, such as Integrated Water and Waste management Plans, Water Quality Management Reports and Risk Assessments for wastewater discharge
Determination of flood lines and appropriate water resource buffer zones
Wetland delineation and management
Development of water balances and conducting of clean-anddirty water separation studies
Water conservation and demand side management
Investigations and recommendations for water minimization strategies, inclusive of recycling, re-use and wastage dentification and mitigation recommendations
Establishment and implementation of water quality monitoring systems, including biomonitoring
Incident investigations and preventative recommendations
Emergency preparedness studies and recommendations
Conducting conflict resolution and management (e.g. water allocations disputes)
Tailored integrated water resources management awareness training and capacity building.

Remediation
Remediation most commonly involves the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, sediment, or surface water for the general protection of human health and the environment, or from a brown field site intended for redevelopment.

Particular services entail management of a diverse specialist project team who can do the following:

Site assessments
Due diligence investigations
Implementation of proven treatment technologies
Community consultation and information (refer to our SocialDevelopment and Public Participation Service Line)
Facilitate environmental applications and authority consultation to meet legislative requirements (refer to our environmental Impact Reporting and Authorisation Applications Service Line).

Environmental Rehabilitation
One of the most common ways an organisation can and does minimise it’s environmental impact and footprint is through rehabilitation in the post construction phase of development projects. This is more often than not also a legislated requirement as part of the conditions of the environmental authorisation. The objective of rehabilitation is to return an impacted area or site to an acceptable ecological state and is common place on development projects such as housing developments, industrial and mining concerns, as well as after the completion of linear infrastructure developments.

Organs of state or non-governmental organisations may also identify rehabilitation projects to return some ecological functionality (up to restoration level) to our natural resources, for example through river rehabilitation or wetland rehabilitation.
Bohlweki-SSI Environmental provides extensive input into post construction Environmental Management Plans (rehabilitation phase) and can facilitate compliance through the provision of an Environmental Control Officer (refer to our Environmental Systems, Auditing, Monitoring and Training Service Line). In addition, Bohlweki-SSI Environmental provides the identification of physical intervention measures for river rehabilitation and for river clean-up campaigns to raise awareness within communities and through strategic documents to secure the necessary funding for such programmes or initiatives.