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Grantley Smith

Grantley Smith is a Senior Project Engineer at the Water Research Laboratory. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and a Master of Engineering Science majoring in Water Engineering.

Grantley has a broad range of experience providing assessment and solutions in water engineering and water resources, developed during his more than 19 years as a professional engineer. He has a track record of successfully managing complex water projects as well as specific expertise in the selection and application of appropriate models to support design solutions, planning and management across the water spectrum.

Grantley has a keen interest in numerical modelling with his expertise gained through a hands-on approach to developing and employing numerical models to address wide range of applications covering catchment, riverine, estuarine and coastal environments.

A key aspect of any successful modelling solution is to ensure that the applied model is based on appropriate process descriptions that can adequately address the presented problem at hand. Grantley’s broad experience in both conceptual models and physically based 1D, 2D and 3D models covering water movement, water quality and sediment transport processes and associated environmental responses leaves him well placed to provide tailored modelling solutions and practical advice to support water planning and management.

Most recently, Grantley has been involved in the application of hydrodynamic models to icon wetland sites in the Murray-Darling Basin. His work on the Chowilla Floodplain, Koondrook Forest, Gunbower Forest and Macquarie Marshes will assist in the management of environmental flows to these important wetland assets.  Grantley has also completed a range of Flood Studies and Floodplain Management Studies addressing flood risk in urban and rural environments.

Grantley has undertaken a range of studies relating to dams. He has planned and implemented a range of operational and forecasting systems for dams and storages typically as web enabled Decision Support Systems to assist dam owners manage and operate dams efficiently for water supply. He is an experienced modeller of hypothetical dam failure for dam safety assessments and is familiar with the ANCOLD requirements for dam risk assessment. He has also completed assessments using CFD for the design testing of hydro power headrace and tailrace channels and complex pump station intakes.

Grantley has also contributed to the assessment of numerous outfalls in both estuarine and coastal environments. These assessments have ranged in size from small studies of the potential impacts river bank overflows on receiving water environments to project management of a multi-disciplinary team for the hydraulic and structural stability design and commissioning testing of the ocean outfall for the Illawarra Wastewater Strategy at the Wollongong STP.

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