Environmental Monitoring
Monitoring for Compliance – a breadth of expertise
Leppitt Associates have more than 40 years combined experience of Environmental Monitoring.
Monitoring may be required to:
- establish background data prior to the development of a new waste facility
- as part of a contaminated land survey where development is proposed
- as evidence of compliance prior to surrendering an environmental permit
- in fulfilment of planning conditions, e.g. to validate ecological mitigation or permit continued use of land for a specific activity (such as in situ biological treatment)
What do we Monitor?
Monitoring can be at any scale. We have the skills and experience to tackle large, complex sites (e.g. municipal landfill) as well as targeted data for sole traders with specific planning or permitting conditions:
Waste Facilities & other Developments
- Landfill Gas – perimeter boreholes, flux box surveys and walk over surveys
- Ground/Surface Water – boreholes, and surface water bodies
- Landfill Leachate – boreholes, treatment plants, outfalls etc.
- Dust – frisbee collection and personal exposure monitoring
- Noise – environmental and personal exposure
Vegetation
- monitoring for conservation objectives (e.g. response to burning and/or grazing) including condition assessment for upland vegetation
- monitoring vegetation response to e.g. landfill leachate irrigation and stack emissions
- design and implementation of monitoring for ecological mitigation
- higher plants and bryophytes
Design & Analysis
We design bespoke monitoring programmes and provide documentation suitable for:
- MCERTS
- Regular data submission to the Environment Agency for permit conditions
- Environmental procedures for compliance with ISO14001
- Planning conditions
Statistical rigour is the foundation for our design; we have a proven track record of providing quality data and implementing appropriate analysis suitable for scrutiny by the Environment Agency or to peer-review standard.
We Offer
- design of appropriate databases for long term storage of monitoring data
- integral graphical representation of trends
- statistical data analysis for rigorous hypothesis testing
- multivariate analysis for complex multi-attribute scenarios