Leading mining company reactivates mine site

After a number of inactive years, a lot of equipment needed either repair or replacement to comply with both operational and EPA requirements. 

One such concern raised by the EPA was the existing water quality monitoring equipment - specifically used for monitoring waste water runoff. 

With waste water potentially passing over the spillway and into surrounding waterways during significant rainfall events, this could potentially impact negatively upon the surrounding environment. It is therefore crucial to continually monitor the water quality prior to such an event occurring.

Initial estimates obtained by the mining company determined that to it would cost somewhere in the vicinity of $40K to repair the existing water quality monitoring equipment on site. 

The Solution
They turned to Pacific Data Systems for a solution.

PDS were able to provide a complete new water quality monitoring solution utilising their PDS’ SatVUE satellite telemetry solution. The sensors integrated with the SatVUE solution included pH, Turbidity, EC, water depth and flow rate. 

All equipment as supplied for less than a 1/4 of the cost previously quoted to repair the existing equipment. 

Yielding immediate results