Projects

The Water Research Laboratory has been undertaking commercial projects for government and industry for more than 50 years. This page has a selected list of recent projects and we will continue to update this page as more studies are completed. For further information on any of these projects, or on previous projects, please contact WRL directly.

Note that at the bottom of this page is a Google Map showing the location of these WRL projects.

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
• Collaroy-Narrabeen Coastal Monitoring
• Environmental Flows for Victorian Estuaries
• Inundation and Sea Level Rise Impacts and Adaptation for South Arm Secondary Road, Hobart, Tasmania
• Koniambo Wharf 3 m Flume Testing
• Manning River Saline Dynamic Modelling
• 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
• 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

• Bungendore Groundwater Model
• Burwood Beach Ocean Outfall
• Collaroy-Narrabeen Coastal Monitoring
• Environmental Flows for Victorian Estuaries
• Feasibility Assessment for Managed Aquifer Recharge - Joynton Avenue Re-Development Site
• 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
• Illawarra Ocean Outfall Trial Studies
• Iluka Aquifer Injection Scheme
• Improving Regional Capacities: Hydrodynamic Models and Polluted Waters, Jakarta Bay, Indonesia
• Lakes Beach Desalination Plant Groundwater Investigations
• Mallowa Creek Surface Water Investigations
• Manning River Saline Dynamic Modelling
• Modelling of Darwin Harbour
• Narrabeen Lagoon Entrance Study
• Potential Impacts of Effluent Re-Use on Groundwater at Tamworth
• Pre-Feasibility Assessment of Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Botany Aquifer
• Reducing Acid Water Impacts in Anna Bay
• Routine Sydney Deepwater Outfall Modelling
• Saline Dynamics of the Shoalhaven River
• Tidal Restoration and Wetland Creation at the Kooragang Nature Reserve (Tomago, NSW)
• Tomago Wetland Remote Monitoring
• Wetland Creation at Ash Island, Newcastle, NSW
• Yamba/Iluka Ebb Tide Release Detailed Concept Design

Civil Engineering Hydraulics

• Baghouse Air Modelling
• CFD Modelling of Ocean Outfall Purging
• Hydraulic Testing of Sydney Desalination Riser Cap
• Physical Modelling of BlueScope Steel’s Steelworks Cogeneration Plant Saltwater Cooling System, Port Kembla
• Physical Modelling of William Slim Drive Retarding Basin Outlet, ACT
• Suma Park Reservoir Spillway Investigations
• Yamba/Iluka Ebb Tide Release Detailed Concept Design

Groundwater

• Bungendore Groundwater Model
• Development of 3D Moisture Tomography
• Feasibility Assessment for Managed Aquifer Recharge - Joynton Avenue Re-Development Site
• 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
• Potential Impacts of Effluent Re-Use on Groundwater at Tamworth
• Pre-Feasibility Assessment of Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Botany Aquifer

Hydrology & Water Resources

• Development of 3D Moisture Tomography
• Environmental Flows for Victorian Estuaries
• Groundwater Monitoring and Evaluation and Grower Survey, Namoi Catchment
• Mallowa Creek Surface Water Investigations

Click map for WRL project locations