Assessing contaminated sites to provide clients with cost-effective solutions
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Are you redeveloping an old residential property?
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Subdividing a farm for residential land use?
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Disturbing soil on a HAIL site?
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Need to know contaminant concentrations in your soil to determine suitable disposal options?
We can help!
ABOUT US
EC Otago is a Dunedin owned and operated environmental consultancy. We take a practical approach based on our extensive experience in the assessment of contaminated sites to provide clients with cost-effective solutions that draw on our experience in planning, civil construction and waste management. Our focus is on defining site constraints and identifying feasible and affordable solutions to site issues.
We serve clients throughout the southern half of the South Island.
We offer a range of services to make regulatory compliance easy, from contaminated land assessments through to remediation and treatment options. We can facilitate contaminated waste disposal and offer complete project management services to ensure your project runs smoothly and efficiently, from start to finish.
MEET THE TEAM
Bernice Chapman
Senior Contaminated Land Consultant
CEnvP, PhD in Biochemistry, Member of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand.
021 254 1560
Berni is a Certified Environmental Practitioner who has worked in consultancy firms for over 20 years in the waste management, waste-to-energy and contaminated land sectors, with a focus on contaminated land management for the past 8 years with EC Otago. Her experience includes preliminary and detailed site investigations, sampling and analysis, site remediation, feasibility studies, problem solving and process design. This work includes the management of a range of environmentally polluting industrial effluents, contaminated land investigations and site remediation.
Berni has previously worked as Laboratory Manager for Waste Solutions Ltd, an Associate for CPG New Zealand Ltd, and a Wastewater Treatment Specialist for ADI Systems.
Aleasha King
Geologist
Graduate diploma in Geology, Master in Geophysics
027 359 4705
Aleasha is a Contaminated Land Consultant with a background in geology and geophysics and a strong commitment to the environment. Her experience in contaminated land investigations includes four years with EC Otago undertaking preliminary and detailed site investigations, sampling, data analysis and site remediation.
Aleasha has previously worked in Engineering Geology with experience in site soils investigations and bearing capacity assessments. For her master’s degree, she studied the structure of the Alpine Fault at a formerly unmapped location on the West Coast of New Zealand.