Senior Hydrogeologist / Manager responsible for -

• All Global Groundwater Projects  click hyperlink for details

Omni Services Pty. Ltd.                                                                      April 1996 - March 1997

• Investigation and production bore drilling and testing for irrigation supply bores for the City of Gosnells, Perth. - Soil and Water Resource Group.
• Groundwater investigation drilling, production bore drilling, and groundwater monitoring. to determine regional hydrogeology of a major valley fill aquifer, Caves Creek, Hamersley Ranges, northwest of Tom Price. - Sinclair Knight Merz for Hamersley Iron Pty. Limited.
• Groundwater investigation drilling for extension of the De Grey River borefield to augment water supplies to Port Hedland. - Sinclair Knight Merz Pty. Ltd. for Water Corporation.
• Production bore drilling, construction, testing, evaluation of groundwater modeling and reporting for dewatering Yandi-II open cut iron ore mine, via Newman - Water Supply Services for Henry Walker Contracting.
• Production bore drilling, construction, testing and reporting for potable water supply at Wakathuni Aboriginal Community, Tom Price/Paraburdoo. - Water Supply Services for Halpern Glick Maunsell.
• Preliminary appraisal of potential of decommissioned bores in the Jimberlana Wellfield by data review and airlifting, Norseman. - Colman Groundwater for Central Norseman Gold Corporation.
• Production bore drilling and construction for process water at the Emu pit open cut gold mine. Selection of suitable site and bore orientation for sub-vertical bore to intersect subsurface workings, Leinster. - Colman Groundwater for Western Mining Corporation.
• Reviewing, editing and finalising the Pilbara Groundwater Management Plan, Perth. - Colman Groundwater for Water and Rivers Commission.
• Annual wellfield reviews. Westralian Fruits 1994-1995 and 1995-1996. Maylands Golf Course, 1995-1996. Colman Groundwater and Soil and Water Resource Group.

Geological Survey of Western Australia/                             October 1993 – April 1996
Water and Rivers Commission.                                                                                            

• Regional groundwater resources appraisal of the Pilbara Region, Perth/Pilbara.
• Reviewing a groundwater monitoring program employed by the Water Authority of Western Australia, in the Carnarvon Irrigation Scheme Wellfield, Perth/Carnarvon.
• Groundwater exploration, on site drilling rig supervision, geophysical data acquisition and reporting in order to augment supplies for the Carnarvon Irrigation Scheme and township, Carnarvon/Perth.
• Groundwater exploration, drilling rig supervision, surface and down hole geophysical data acquisition in order to augment town supplies, Onslow.

Rural Water Corporation/Hydrotechnology.                 January 1991 – August 1993

• Groundwater recharge mapping over 400 000 Ha of a riverine plain. Assessing the impact of rising groundwater on the environment and on agriculture. Providing expert advice to dryland salinity management organizations and to land holders. Instructing and coordinating technical support staff, Goulburn Valley, Victoria.
• Modeling groundwater (using SHE) of an alluvial aquifer to predict changes in groundwater movement and quality under various scenarios, Goulburn Valley, Victoria.
• Modeling groundwater (using MODFLOW) of a deep, artesian marine aquifer, assessing the potential of the aquifer to augment surface water for city supplies and assessing management options – Warnambool, Victoria.
• Investigating the effects of de-watering of a gravel excavation site, providing recommendations for the licensing of the associated groundwater pumping and the end use of the discharged water. Resolving the dispute between competing groundwater users, Katunga, Victoria
• Locating and specifying construction of regional groundwater monitoring bores on the Goulburn Riverine Plain, Victoria.
• Liaising with other state government departments, local government, land holders and mine management regarding de-watering from an open cut gold mine and disposal of pumped effluent into surface streams and via re-injection into the aquifer, Nagambie, Victoria.

State Energy Commission of Western Australia         August 1990 – December 1990

• Groundwater exploration and development in the Perth and Carnarvon Basins at two compressor stations along the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline. Investigation into the deterioration of supply at a third compressor station. Specification and supervision of drilling, bore construction and testing.

Rockwater Hydrogeological Consultants                             January 1990 – July 1990

• Drilling supervision, lithological and geophysical logging, construction, development and testing of water supply wells to 200 m depth at a mineral sands mine, Eneabba.
• Rehabilitation and testing of a deep (550 m), high yielding water supply well, Eneabba.
• Construction and development of shallow (to 24 m) monitoring bores, Eneabba.
• Construction and development of shallow monitoring bores, Kwinana.
• Rehabilitation and testing of shallow (to 13 m), high yielding, salt water supply bores to service marine life pools at Two Rocks, Perth.
• Lithological logging, bore construction and development of shallow (to 10 m) groundwater quality monitoring bores for observation of contaminant plume, Bassendean, Perth.
• Monitoring of domestic and other private bores to investigate changes to the fresh water - salt water interface around an estuarine, salt-water canal development, Mandurah.