Ports, marine and coastal

Ports, terminals and coastal developments work in an environment where the effect of a project shows up almost immediately: turbidity from dredging, runoff from stockpiles and hardstand, and discharge from site operations.

A typical program covers:

• Water quality at discharge points and in receiving waters, against licence and approval limits.
• Turbidity and suspended solids around dredging and marine works.
• Dust and particulate levels from bulk handling and vehicle movements.
• Noise at the terminal boundary and the nearest receivers.
• Meteorology, so dust and marine results can be read against the conditions that produced them.

Evidence for approvals

Every result is logged with the time, location and conditions it was taken under, so the record still stands up to an approval condition, an audit or a community question months later.

Remote sites, live data

Stations are self-contained with solar power and telemetry. Readings reach a web portal as they happen, with SMS and email alarms when a limit is approached, so the response happens during the event rather than after it.

Benchmark Monitoring has run long-term dust, noise, meteorology, water quality and discharge monitoring for port and logistics operations, including Trigger Action Response Plans (TARPs) written around the pollutants each site is required to manage.