As the compliance partner of choice, clients rely on Waterline to improve the delivery of raw service water, while complying with legislative requirements.
Clients benefit from having access to a multi-discipline team, working as an extension to their team, who know and understand site requirements—because we’ve been there.
Keeping sites compliant, efficient + safe
Our Mechanical Engineering team ensures your site remains operational by producing industrial equipment designs, finite element modelling, fitness for service assessments and life of mine services modelling.
As operational engineers, we know what it takes to enhance your operation across its lifecycle while keeping your team supported and safe. Just like one of our many clients, who we helped by providing a water delivery strategy that improved its infrastructure while delivering energy and cost efficiencies.
- The client’s service water supply network strategy for the upcoming production panels was complex, comprising a series of multiple booster pumps
- While the pumps enabled the delivery of raw service water, they required regular relocation, added additional underground power supply requirements and maintenance throughout their life. The pumps also added single points of failure to the production units
- Waterline’s multi-discipline team delivered a revised service water system that integrated cohesively with the existing infrastructure. The system extended the network to the current production area, feeding service water to each of the individual gate roads via a newly designed surface-fed service water network
- The new design reduced the need for multiple underground booster pumps, replaced by mid-block boreholes at strategic locations along the production panels
- These improvements ensured firefighting flowrate and pressure requirements would be met without the need for underground booster pumps in case of an underground power outage
We delivered an updated layout of the surface infrastructure to better service underground, which included relocating the service water storage facility, supplying a service water pump skid and adding pressure-reducing valves at various locations in the underground workings to manage pressure requirements. The individual gate roads are better supplied via a network surface poly infrastructure with dual redundancy.
Some of our clients whose sites we are keeping compliant, efficient + safe
