Ecowise Pty Ltd

Established in Queensland in 1975, the Australian Laboratory Services (ALS) is one of the world?s largest and most diversified analytical laboratory and testing companies. With nine divisions and more than 12,000 staff operating from over 300 locations in 65+ countries around the world, ALS is optimally placed to provide clients with technical services and support for both local and international projects. The Water Resources Group (WRG), part of the Environmental Division, specializes in the provision of high quality and dependable data to assist consulting and engineering firms, industry, and government agencies around the world in making informed decisions for environmental projects. The comprehensive range of products and services is complemented by a solid commitment to quality and customer service. WRG designs, supplies and operates a wide range of environmental monitoring systems for the automated, long term, continuous monitoring of many environmental parameters, including weather, water (level, flow, quality) and air (dust, gas, noise). ALS is the largest and most diverse provider of commercial Environmental Analytical Services in Australia. Our services cater to a number of distinct environmental market sectors including drinking and water resources, site assessment and remediation, mining sector monitoring, Occupational Hygiene, acid sulfate soil, acid mine drainage, air, dust, soil gas, coal seam gas, mine gas and fugitive emissions plus sediment testing. Our broad client base includes national, state and local governments, private industry, multinationals, utilities, and major mining and resource companies. ALS is a strong supporter of industry associations such as AWA, ACLCA, CRCCARE and ALGA and regularly provides training and technical support for clients focusing especially on the development of graduates within the industry.

Organisational Capability

  • - Catchment Management
    - Water Resource Monitoring and Modelling
    - Catchment /Potable Water Sampling And Analysis
    - General Water Quality Monitoring and Reporting
    - Trade Waste Monitoring
    - Leachate Monitoring
    - Meteorology
    - Flood Forecasting and Warning
    - Data Collection and Dissemination
    - Web Services
    - Training and qualification assessment

Projects

  • Hidden Valley
    Design & Install Radio/Satellite Telemetry NetworkType: A mix of 900Mhz Spread Spectrum radio and BGAN Inmarsat Stations: 2 x radio base,5 x radio repeater, 15 x radio remotes, 10 x BGAN IP remotesData Management: • Site Installation & maintenance of Hydstra Data Management System. Set up & maintenance of Time Series and Water Quality Modules for all existing and new sites. • Design & install of client site and ALS site telemetered data retrieval systems. • Design & install of client intranet real time data monitoring and alarm system. • Design & install of system mirror automation between client site and ALS.• Design & install ALS hosted secure client internet near real time reporting. • Integration of required existing client databases to the site data management system, including MP5 Lims database. • Design & implementation of data recovery failure and sanity check failure alarms for key stakeholders.• Ongoing data management support
  • Rajasthan Hydrometric Network Upgrade
    ALS MATS (formerly Ecowise) was contracted to investigate, design and construct a hydrographic monitoring network which included 59 stilling-well water level sites, 13 pressure sensor water level sites, 49 rainfall sites and 11 automatic weather stations. The project also included radio and data line telemetry at 40 of these sites, automatically polled from 13 regional centres which then automatically forwarded the information to a central data management computer at the flood control centre, Jaipur.
  • AHNIP – Appropriate Hydrographic Network Improvement Project
    A network of 17 water level and rainfall stations located in all five MRC member countries connected via GSM telemetry to a data collection and processing system.
  • Ranger Uranium Mine Network Upgrade
    An Early Warning System of over 15 meteorological, hydrological and water quality stations linked to monitoring and control software. Measured Parameters- Meteorological: Rainfall Hydrological: Water Level & Flow Water Quality: Water Temperature, pH, Electrical Conductivity, Turbidity
  • Gregory Crinum Coal Mine Monitoring Network
    Supply and Installation of 14 Automatic Monitoring Stations Water Flow/ Quality Stations Measured parameters: water level, flow rate, temperature, conductivity, pH, turbidity Automatic Weather Station (10 metre) Measured parameters: temperature, humidity, solar radiation, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall.
  • Capcoal Coal Mine Monitoring Network Installation
    Supply and Installation of 40 x Automatic Monitoring Stations Water Flow/ Quality Stations Measured parameters: water level, flow rate, temperature, conductivity, pH, turbidity Automatic Weather Stations (3 metre) Measured parameters: temperature, humidity, solar radiation, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall.