Water Resource Management, Water Quality, and Aquatic Biology
Pale Blue Dot Consulting are expert water resource scientists. Our staff have performed consulting, auditing, compliance, assessment, sampling, and statistical analysis for every conceivable water resource project, including:
- Potable (drinking) water compliance monitoring and reporting,
- Industrial and domestic wastewater audits
- Stormwater Pollution Prevention Planning, Monitoring, and Implementation
- Surface water quality (e.g., lakes, rivers, creeks, springs, estuaries, coastal waters) and biological assessments
- Groundwater quality and level monitoring
- Ichthyological (fish) and benthic invertebrate (e.g., insects, crustaceans, clams, worms) surveys
- Submerged aquatic vegetation (seagrass and macro algae) surveys
- Emergency spill management (e.g., petroleum, transformer fluid, hydraulic fluid, hazardous waste, and illicit discharges)
- Pollutions Source Tracking Studies
- Quality Assurance & Quality Control (QA/QC)
- Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP)
- Auditing existing water quality programs
Some of the high demand water resource management services PBDC performs include:
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- Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Rapid Biological Assessments:
- Stream Condition Index (SCI)
- Stream Habitat Assessment (HA)
- Rapid Periphyton Survey (RPS)
- Linear Vegetation Survey (LVS)
- Lake Vegetation Index (LVI)
- Lake Condition Index (LCI)
- Bio-Recon
- Wetland Condition Index (WCI)
- Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV)/Seagrass/Benthic Surveys and Mapping
- Wastewater, Potable Water, Stormwater Compliance Monitoring and Water Quality Audits
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Compliance Audits and Permitting (stormwater and wastewater)
- Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) Sampling and Evaluation
- Basin Management Action Plans (BMAP)
- Water Quality-Based Effluent Limitation (WQBEL) Studies
- Site Specific Alternative Criteria (SSAC) Studies
- Fish Population Diversity Surveys and Analysis
- Pollution (including microbial) Source Tracking
- Potable (Drinking water), Surface Water (Lakes, Rivers, Streams, Creeks), Groundwater (Aquifer), and Wastewater Monitoring
- Taxonomy and Diversity Surveys: Fish, Amphibian, Invertebrate, Macrophyte (vascular plants), Algae, and Periphyton
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Rapid Biological Assessments: