Environmental Services:

Our commitment to environmental and regulatory-compliant trenchless construction and completion is paramount. We provide our clients with environmental professionals who have unique experience in trenchless regulators.

From upfront environmental feasibility, construction monitoring, and waste disposal, to site reclamation, we handle every step of your trenchless process.

  • Monitor turbidity of water bodies during trenchless crossings as relates to CCME guidelines and Water Act requirements.
  • Daylight bore path/waterway monitoring utilizing Biologists and environmental specialists, supported by remote as well as handheld monitoring equipment.
  • Drilling Fluid Disposal Management; acquire subsoil samples for proposed mud disposal locations for all cuttings and fluid disposal requirements as per provincial guidelines.
  • Monitor and manifest associated cuttings and fluids for disposal as per provincial guidelines.
  • Spill and/or Inadvertent Release of fluid cleanup, remediation, documentation, and reporting.
  • Manage cost control of mud disposal operations.
  • Night monitoring using remote sensors and data loggers.
  • Wide water bodies are supported with an available Jet Boat team for full channel coverage of turbidity monitoring transects.
    Mediation and guidance of regulator site visits, inquiries, and audits.
  • Provide post-construction environment reporting including all daily reports, regulatory communications, lab analysis, all approvals and permits from regulators and any other monitoring records as required or requested.
  • Obtain water diversion permits.
    Fish and Wildlife Surveys, including wetland and associated biophysical assessments.
  • Bird surveying of pipeline right of ways
    Environmental Reviews in Managed Special Areas.
  • Post-drilling Site Reclamation
    Fish Rescue/Salvage.

 

Project Management Services include:

  • Certified Environmental Site Inspections
  • Contractor Management
  • Quality Control
  •  Contractor/Task Estimating
  • Generating Site-Specific Reports and multiple output formats

Aerial Drones

The use of aerial drones for visual and infrared inspection of HDD crossings offers the solution.

JGonda’s fleet of drones and licensed pilots can offer inspection services to meet regulatory requirement for inspection, to ensure any environmental impacts are identified and addressed. Jgonda’s drones may also be utilized for visual records of construction processes and impacts, as well as restoration. Our drones are capable of long flight distances to cover any length of trenchless crossing; Jgonda’s drones have completed inspection on lake crossings of lengths greater than 15,000 ft.

J. Gonda Environnemental Consultant Limit.
We are committed to growing and expanding our relationships with all our clients while providing experienced solutions for all Trenchless methods.