Managing of the sediment in artificial storages

Artificial storages can suffer from silting up, due to the accumulation of sediment mainly carried during floods. The management of this phenomenon through the emptying of storages, it is a necessary procedure not only for reasons related to the exercise of the dam but most of all for public safety reasons. This procedure can also have significant effects on the fluvial ecosystems downstream. These effects need to be supervised and limited as much as possible through a suitable planning and scheduling of the emptying operations.

We are able to give a complete professional advice in the field of managing storages with hydroelectrical purposes.

We offer our technical advice for the arrangement of all the documents required by the current regulations on hydroelectric plants, such as the management planand any monitoring plans. We support our client in the authorization path in the relationships with the supervising authorities.

Services

Carrying out morpho-bathymetric surveys
Carrying out campaigns monitoring the biological and chemical-physical quality of the waters and the sediments inside the storage of interest
Characterization of the river basin and its pressures
Monitoring during the emptying activities, through the measurement of Total Suspended Solids and the main chemical-physical parameters of the waters (oxygen, temperature, pH, conductivity)
Realization of campaigns monitoring and assessing the effects on the habitat, the fish community and the biological and chemical-physical quality of the waters

Activity manager

Dott. Gaetano Gentili