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Understanding how water moves, behaves and influences communities and industries across the globe.
Water is becoming scarcer in many places and increasingly volatile in others. Building sustainable communities, industries and infrastructure is becoming more challenging. Our wide range of projects highlights our innovation, our creativity, and our focus on finding solutions that rise to that challenge and positively impact our clients and the communities they serve.
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Buscot Park lake: a heritage dam reinvented
Buscot Park Lake, a historic 18th-century feature in Oxfordshire, UK, faced safety concerns due to its aging dam. A statutory inspection revealed it couldn’t adequately handle floods or emergency drawdown, prompting the need for urgent upgrades. To tackle this, HR Wallingford partnered with the
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Underwater sound modelling of an offshore 3D seismic survey
Our specialist underwater sound modelling of the towed acoustic source on a 3D seismic survey made an important contribution to the overall EIA for a seismic exploration project in the Adriatic Sea.
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Green infrastructure: supporting green river engineering
Responding to the needs of the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, the Welsh Local Government Association and Natural England, HR Wallingford led the development of decision making frameworks that identify the critical success factors to support the selection and application of green
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Sedimentation studies at Tarbela dam, Pakistan
Tarbela is the largest reservoir in Pakistan and one of the largest in the world. The dam and the reservoir were commissioned in 1974 for the purpose of regulating flow for irrigation and power production. The dam impounds the waters of the Indus River, which carries a heavy sediment load, most of
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Drought exercise to optimise water resources management planning
We created a drought simulation workshop to help Bristol Water test their draft Drought Plan. The workshop supported their statutory obligation and helped to make them better prepared to manage droughts specific to their resource system.
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Improving access to Mesaieed Port
HR Wallingford looked at options for the upgrade and management of the navigation channels to Mesaieed Port in Doha. We identified a number practical measures that will improve access to the port, affording real economic benefits as well as helping to ensure future demand can be met.
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Marine facilities and dredging for Gladstone LNG
GLNG is a multibillion dollar project to convert coal seam gas to LNG for marine export from Curtis Island in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. HR Wallingford was first appointed in 2008 for concept definition of marine facilities requirements and we have continued support GLNG in the role of marine
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