Environmental Compliance Monitoring
All too often, data collected through environmental compliance monitoring programs is filed as part of a regulatory report but can’t be used to support operating decisions.
At Matrix Solutions, our approach to environmental compliance monitoring allows you to align multiple monitoring needs to maximize the value of your investment. The design and execution of our integrated monitoring programs combines our terrestrial, aquatic, and hydrogeological disciplines with high quality data management. This gives you valuable information to make strategic operating decisions and manage your environmental risks, while meeting your compliance monitoring and assessment requirements.
Environmental Compliance Monitoring services
Key services include:
- Aerial imagery acquisition, processing and analysis
- Aquatic habitat assessment and monitoring
- Development of erosion and sediment control (ESC) plans, environmental protection (EPP) plans, and environmental construction operations (ECO) plans
- Data management
- Construction compliance, monitoring and environmental inspection
- Groundwater modelling, assessment and monitoring
- Identification, mapping, and analysis of high-risk compliance constraints
- Soil quality assessment and monitoring
- Surface water quality assessment and monitoring
- Vegetation assessment and monitoring
- Wetland assessment and monitoring
- Wildlife assessment and monitoring
- Post-construction monitoring and adaptive management
Environmental Compliance Monitoring services
Key services include:
- Aerial imagery acquisition, processing and analysis
- Aquatic habitat assessment and monitoring
- Development of erosion and sediment control (ESC) plans, environmental protection (EPP) plans, and environmental construction operations (ECO) plans
- Data management
- Construction compliance, monitoring and environmental inspection
- Groundwater modelling, assessment and monitoring
- Identification, mapping, and analysis of high-risk compliance constraints
- Soil quality assessment and monitoring
- Surface water quality assessment and monitoring
- Vegetation assessment and monitoring
- Wetland assessment and monitoring
- Wildlife assessment and monitoring
- Post-construction monitoring and adaptive management
Related Projects
Fish Habitat Offsetting for 12 Street Southeast Bridge Replacement
The City of Calgary required a Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) offsetting plan to offset the unavoidable aquatic effects from the temporary instream berms for the 12 Street Southeast Bridge Replacement Project.
Travers Solar Project environmental assessment, permitting, and construction support
In 2017, Travers 2 Solar LP retained Matrix Solutions to support the environmental components of the Travers Solar Project in Vulcan County, Alberta. The project is being developed on approximately 1,350 hectares of agricultural land and will have a capacity of up to 465 MWac once fully operational (expected by end of 2022).
Resource Specialists Support for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project
Matrix began supporting construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) in Spring 2019. TMEP is essentially a twinning of the existing 1,150-kilometre pipeline between Strathcona County (near Edmonton), Alberta and Burnaby, BC.