Water Technology seeks applications from a senior coastal engineer for our Brisbane office. You will join a group with a strong commitment to delivering quality service and fostering ongoing relationships with our client base with opportunities to continue to develop and grow our coastal capabilities. Water Technology has a well-established coastal business and strong track record in coastal engineering. The successful applicant will be responsible for leading that business growth in Queensland. Ideally, you will have 10+ years of experience in coastal engineering with local experience i ... Read More

Our team would like to welcome Rianda and Ky. Rianda Mills has been responsible for a range of projects in both the private and public sectors over the past seven years working in the environmental services industry. For the last three years, Rianda has applied and validated three-dimensional hydrodynamic and water quality models for numerous reservoirs, lakes and coastal ocean domains both throughout Australia and internationally. After developing modelling scenarios in close consultation with the client, the model output and field data are used to analyse and report on environmental impac ... Read More

Alister has more than twelve (12) years professional experience in the Civil Engineering industry across Australia and has worked extensively within the water resources, flooding and drainage sectors comprising both Government and private sector areas. Alister has been actively involved in all levels of engineering consultancy comprising technical project input through to managing numerous projects as well as staff and clients in addition with business management and administration functions. Alister holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree from Monash University (Honours 1) and a Master ... Read More

As Water Technology continues to grow we have been successful in recruiting a number of additional senior staff. As with previous years, our growth is founded upon the recruitment of exceptional technical staff to service our growing client base. Recent recruits to the Melbourne office include Lauren Mittiga and Georgina Race. Lauren has an honours degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as a degree in Environmental Science from The University of Adelaide. She has over 9 years professional experience in hydrology and water resources planning and modelling, with consid ... Read More

Australia has recently experienced extreme flood impacts due an extraordinarily wet spring-summer period, particularly in SE Australia.  Over the September 2010 to January 2011 period Water Technology was actively involved in flood response management during the Victorian flood crisis. Working alongside the SES and other agencies has provided valuable insight for our staff on the requirements of flood intelligence systems including the prediction of flood extents, depths and timing.  The ability to rapidly and conveniently communicate this information to an array of stakeholders across wide ... Read More

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Water Technology Horsham office servicing western Victoria. As a company we have a commitment to the servicing of our clients in regional areas and the Horsham office complements our existing regional offices in Wangaratta and Bairnsdale. The Horsham office will provide the full range of Water Technology services with a particular focus on flood management, water sensitive urban design, waterway management and ecological assessments across the whole of Western Victoria. Over the coming months it is anticipated that the office will grow and therefor ... Read More

Dr Andrew McCowan, Managing Director and founder of Water Technology, has been appointed to the federal government’s Coasts and Climate Change Council by Greg Combet, the federal Climate Change Minister. The Council was originally established in late 2009 under the chairmanship of Professor Tim Flannery. Its purpose was to engage with communities and stakeholders and to advise the Government on key issues relating to Climate Change and the Australian coast. The Council provided its end of term report to the Minister in December 2010. The Council’s report and key recommendations can b ... Read More

Following our contributions to flood response in September and December last year, Water Technology is again assisting the Victorian SES in flood planning and emergency management for the current floods in north central and western Victoria. Staff from the Melbourne office have been located at SES control centers in Bendigo and Geelong. Water Technology staff are well placed to assist in flood response across Victoria having prepared regional flood modelling over the past 15 years for the following towns and catchments: Yarriambiak Creek - Flow modelling project Fly through - Glenorchy ... Read More

Serious flooding is currently being experienced in SE Queensland with the situation expected to worsen for much of the major metropolitan areas over the next 24 to 48 hours. Flood warnings are available for the Bureau of Meteorology’s website http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/. Warnings specifically for the Lockyer, Bremer, Warrill, and Brisbane Rivers below Wivenhoe including Brisbane City can be found at http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20805.html For specific suburbs at risk in the Brisbane area, go to Brisbane City Council’s website http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/#maps (lo ... Read More

Ensham Mine Flood Warning System, Emerald, Queensland Water Technology has developed and calibrated a hydrologic flood forecasting model to provide Ensham Mine with in-house warning of floods from the Nogoa River in Queensland. Historically, Ensham has experienced difficulty in gaining access to information and forecasts during events. Now within a matter of minutes, Ensham staff can use the model to automatically download the latest rainfall information from the Bureau of Meteorology and be presented with a prediction of flood heights at the mine site for up to 7 days into the future. Queen ... Read More