Projects

WRL Projects is a team of industry experts, providing applied solutions to commercially focussed projects. The project team’s most important asset is the combined research and industry based knowledge of our individual team members. WRL provides the team’s practitioners with an environment that is unique in the Australian consulting community for investigating and providing solutions to industry and government. No other water consulting group in Australia has the unique combination of data collection capabilities and analysis, physical laboratories and numerical modelling techniques that WRL can offer. Skilfully applied, this unique ‘toolbox’ allows WRL to customise the right combination of techniques in each investigation to provide the best solution possible.

Coastal Engineering

• 2D Physical Modelling of Oceanlinx Wave Energy System
• 3D Physical Modelling of Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Apron Widening, Queensland
• ANMM Wave Screen Testing
• A Review of Artificial Reefs for Coastal Protection in NSW
• Assessment of Coastal Hazards: Manly, NSW
• Australian Coastal Observation Network
• Coastal Storm Data Analysis: Provision of Extreme Wave Data for Adaptation Planning
• Coastal Zone Management Plan for Batemans Bay
• Collaroy-Narrabeen Coastal Monitoring
• Inundation and Sea Level Rise Impacts and Adaptation for South Arm Secondary Road, Hobart, Tasmania
• Koniambo Wharf 3 m Flume Testing
• Melville Bay Wind Wave Hindcasting
• Mornington Pier 2D Physical Model
• Narrabeen Lagoon Entrance Study
• Physical Modelling of Barrow Island LNG Plant Materials Offload Facility
• Physical Modelling of Bounty Bay Breakwater, Pitcairn Island
• Physical Modelling of Geotextile Breakwaters, Abu Dhabi
• Physical Modelling of Shell Cove Boat Harbour Entrance
• Physical Modelling of Wyndham Harbour Breakwaters, Victoria
• Port Fairy Wave Power Resource Analysis
• Predicting Hazardous Conditions for Rock Fishing
• Sea Level Rise and Coastal Hazard Assessment for Clarence City Council, Tasmania
• Research and Development Studies for ELCOMAX® ELCOROCK® Geotextile Sand Containers
• Wave Transmission Over Reefs and Physical Modelling of COPED Units, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Environmental Engineering

• Yarrahapinni
• Arndilly Wetland
• Big Swamp Rehabilitation Project: Hydrological Study
• Burwood Beach Ocean Outfall
• Coastal Oceanographic Processes and Numerical Modelling for the Kurnell Desalination Plant
• Effluent Particle Dynamics, Gunns Pulp Mill
• Environmental Flows for Victorian Estuaries
• Hawkesbury-Nepean River ADCP Flow Gauging
• Illawarra Ocean Outfall Trial Studies
• Improving Regional Capacities: Hydrodynamic Models and Polluted Waters, Jakarta Bay, Indonesia
• Manning River Saline Dynamic Modelling
• Modelling of Darwin Harbour
• Reducing Acid Water Impacts in Anna Bay
• Riverbank Vulnerability Assessment of the Seaham Weir Pool
• Routine Sydney Deepwater Outfall Modelling
• Saline Dynamics of the Shoalhaven River
• Sedimentation Modelling for Darwin Harbour, NT
• Tidal Restoration and Wetland Creation at the Kooragang Nature Reserve (Tomago, NSW)
Tidal Restoration: Design and Installation of SwingGates for Tomago Wetland
Tomago Wetland Remote Monitoring
Tomago Wetlands Tidal Inundation Modelling
Wetland Creation at Ash Island, Newcastle, NSW
Yamba/Iluka Ebb Tide Release Detailed Concept Design

Civil Engineering Hydraulics

• Australian Rainfall and Runoff Newcastle Flood Model
• Baghouse Air Modelling
• Barochambers for Understanding Fish Trauma
• CFD Modelling of Ocean Outfall Purging
• Environmental Flow and Saline Dynamics Modelling of the Hawkesbury-Nepean
• Estimation of Critical Sheer for Transport of In Sewer Solids, Low Flow Sewer Project
• Hunter River Water Quality Model
• Hydraulic Testing of Sydney Desalination Riser Cap
• Ma’aden Seawater Pump Intake Testing
• Physical Modelling of BlueScope Steel’s Steelworks Cogeneration Plant Saltwater Cooling System, Port Kembla
• Physical Modelling of Outlet Works for the Adelaide Desalination Plant
• Physical Modelling of the Bogong Headpond
• Physical Modelling of William Slim Drive Retarding Basin Outlet, ACT
• Suma Park Reservoir Spillway Investigations
• Yuen Long and Kam Tin Sewage and Sewerage Disposal Scheme

Groundwater

• Bungendore Groundwater Model
• Feasibility Assessment for Managed Aquifer Recharge - Joynton Avenue Re-Development Site
• Groundwater Mapping and Transition Zones, Namoi Catchment
• Groundwater Monitoring and Evaluation and Grower Survey, Namoi Catchment
• Hat Head Effluent Groundwater Monitoring Program
• Hydrogeological Investigation of the Fate of Salt Mobilised Under Dryland Cropping on the Cryon Plain, North Western NSW
• Iluka Aquifer Injection Scheme
• Lakes Beach Desalination Plant Groundwater Investigations
• Modelling of Pit No. 1, Ranger Mine, Northern Territory
• Potential Impacts of Effluent Re-Use on Groundwater at Tamworth
• Pre-Feasibility Assessment of Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Botany Aquifer
• Regional Groundwater Resource Investigations – Manly, Warringah and Pittwater Local Government Areas

Hydrology & Water Resources

• Development of 3D Moisture Tomography
• Mallowa Creek Surface Water Investigations