Diverse Workload for Surveying Team...

Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve

Most of our topographical surveys are at landfill sites and quarries.  A notable exception this year was an assignment funded jointly by Hampshire County Council, English Nature and the European Union to survey the Lymington-Keyhaven marshes on the Solent coastline. 

This is a large area which includes ten saline lagoons considered to be of international importance for nature conservation as a priority habitat.  The four year LIFE Nature programme will involve excavation work to improve the lagoon habitats and their water supply together with modifications to sluices to control depths and salinity in each lagoon.  Our task was to survey the existing drainage networks and lagoons as a basis for design of the improvements.  The survey covered 27 hectares and we used our Trimble 5700 GPS equipment combined with two rovers.

In the photograph you can see distant hills on the Isle of Wight with The Needles just to the right of centre on the horizon.

A Welcome to New Surveying Clients 

This year our surveying team has expanded both in numbers and geographically.  In addition to serving our established clientele in the South of England, we have carried out surveys for Shanks in Buckinghamshire and WasteGen in Nottinghamshire. 

The Aggregates Tax has boosted demand for regular stock surveys and volumetrics on specific dates. Lafarge Aggregates has become a new client for this kind of survey. We have also assisted them with setting out surveys for restoration work at Eversley in Hampshire.

Our surveying teams are led by David Evans at Lyndhurst and Kate Braithwaite at St Ives.

Lefarge : Processing Plant at Eversley.