Learn about the Erosion and Sediment Control Guide and implementing it in your day-to-day work.
The Guide, produced by Environment Canterbury in consultation with the earthworks industry, provides practical advice about on-site measures that help you meet resource consent conditions and prevent waterway and dust-related pollution.
With the help of our sponsors, Maccaferri NZ Ltd, and RST Environmental Solutions Ltd, Environment Canterbury offers a range of training workshops:
- Introduction - For Earthwork Site Contractors
- Introduction - For Consultants, Local Authority Staff and Earthwork Site Managers
- Preparing Erosion and Sediment Control Plans (for people with some prior knowledge)
- Chemical Use (flocculants).
About the trainers
Clare Feeney of Environmental Communications Ltd and Brian Handyside of Erosion Management Ltd have been delivering erosion and sediment control training for over ten years in many regions around New Zealand. Clare and Brian both train the introductory workshops for contractors and consultants. Brian is the sole trainer for the Chemical Use and Preparing Erosion and Sediment Control Plans workshops.
Read more about the trainers (pdf 38 kB)
Introduction - For Earthworks Site Contractors
This is a one-day workshop for those who are involved or interested in the building, operation, maintenance or decommissioning of measures set out in erosion and sediment control plans. This workshop provides a background understanding of erosion and sediment control methods and the environmental effects of sediment.
To register: erosion.sediment@ecan.govt.nz
Course fee: $350.00 including GST.
Location:
AgResearch
Lincoln Research Centre
The Lawrence Room
Corner Springs Road and Gerald Street
Lincoln.
Introduction - For Consultants, Local Authority Staff and Earthwork Site Managers
- Course date: June 14th 2013.
This is a one-day workshop for Consultants (who lodge consent applications for earthworks and stream works, prepare assessments of environmental effects and erosion and sediment control plans in support of these and who call for tenders for the approved works), Site Contract Managers, Local Authority staff (involved with policy, consenting and compliance associated with earthworks and stream works), and those wanting a detailed working knowledge of erosion and sediment control. This workshop provides a background understanding of erosion and sediment control methods and the environmental effects of sediment. Time is also spent visiting a greenfield development site and preparing an erosion and sediment control plan.
Course fee: $350.00 including GST.
Location:
AgResearch
Lincoln Research Centre
The Lawrence Room
Corner Springs Road and Gerald Street
Lincoln.
Attendance is limited to 20 people at each workshop.
To register: erosion.sediment@ecan.govt.nz
Preparing Erosion and Sediment Control Plans
Prerequisites
This is an advanced course for people with some experience of preparing and / or implementing erosion and sediment control plans. Attending one of the Consultants or Contractors Erosion and Sediment Control Courses is normally a prerequisite for this advanced course. (So all participants have a good understanding of the environmental effects of sediment and commonly used mitigation measures).
Course content
This Erosion and Sediment Control Plan Course is a one-day event. It is pitched to suit those who have some knowledge and experience but wish to progress to being able to plan effective measures for more complicated and challenging earthworks sites.
Some background material will be presented to ensure that all course participants have some basic knowledge to work from, but this will focus more on particular aspects of control measures, rather than merely duplicate this aspect of the more introductory courses. The use and part that chemicals can play will be discussed. Following on from this, several actual studies will be worked through as examples of how erosion and sediment control plans are prepared in practice. These will vary from a reasonably straight-forward situation to the more complex. Course participants will be given background information on each of these and asked to develop an Erosion & Sediment Control Plan for each. These plans will then be compared with that which was actually prepared. As each example has been subjected to some sort of council scrutiny, the results of this will be available and worked through with course participants.
Who should attend?
Those who already have some prior erosion and sediment control knowledge and are interested in application. This would include consulting engineers and Local Authority staff.
The introductory consultants and contractors courses give a basic background understanding of erosion and sediment control methods and the environmental effects of sediment are dealt with by. These courses deal with the "what" of erosion and sediment control and are a good introduction before this course.
Course fee - to be confirmed. As a guide only, the last workshop was $215.00 including GST. Includes: lunch and morning and afternoon teas.
Attendance is limited to 20 people at each workshop.
Register your interest on our on-line form or contact Customer Services.
Chemical Use
The current control measures in Environment Canterbury’s Erosion and Sediment Control Guide should retain almost all of the coarser textured sediments (e.g. silts and sands) provided they are implemented and maintained appropriately. However, the finer textured material, the so-called 'colouring' agent of sediment-laden water, is not so easily retained on earthworks sites. A simple and robust treatment system has been devised that uses chemicals to treat and retain this fine textured material. It can be operated as a rain initiated dosing system or as a one-off batch dosing application. The very real advantages of the system are its effectiveness in retaining the fine textured material, its cost effectiveness and its simplicity.
The course is a half-day course. It will consist of 'classroom' time followed by a field trip to assess the system in operation (provided a site is operational nearby). Course participants will learn how the system works, how to design and operate one for specific uses, the environmental effects of the chemical, spill procedures and what a chemical management plan should contain.
This course would suit those in the earthmoving industry including consultants, contractors and local authority staff.
Course fee: to be confirmed. As a guide only, the last workshop was $150.00 including GST.
Location:
AgResearch
Lincoln Research Centre
The Lawrence Room
Corner Springs Road and Gerald Street
Lincoln
Attendance is limited to 20 people at each workshop.
Register your interest on our on-line form or contact Customer Services.