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CES has been actively involved in long term monitoring
programmes for a number of years, the most comprehensive of
which has been pre-impact (baseline) monitoring for the Corridor
Sands Project, Chibuto, Mozambique. This comprehensive three
year monitoring program included:
• ground and surface water quality
• inter-tidal & sub-tidal reef ecological condition
• beach pollution monitoring
• fish bioaccumulation
• vegetation condition
• air quality
• baseline radiation emissions
• socio-economic conditions.
Environmental monitoring can be divided into two parts –
baseline and operational phase monitoring. The baseline
monitoring typically involves the identification of suitable
sites that could be affected by the proposed development, as
well as reference sites, and then monitoring these sites at a
consistent frequency over a period (quarterly for three years in
the case of the Corridor Sands Project) in order to establish a
baseline set of conditions and natural fluctuations before
construction or development is initiated. Operational monitoring
then follows, according to a monitoring plan derived from the
baseline monitoring survey.
CES can design, plan and implement environmental monitoring on a
range of scales. For example, we undertake studies from
monitoring the water quality of a aquaculture facility to the
ecological monitoring of heavy mineral mining that takes place
over several kilometers. We have also been involved in
monitoring programmes for Industrial Development Zones, mines
and rehabilitation programmes.
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