Consulting Engineers

Mauritius

Sarako solar farm land drainage study

Country: Mauritius
Client: Sarako PVP Co Ltd.
Year: 2015 - 2015
Funding: Sarako PVP Co Ltd.
Contract Value: 30,000.00 €
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Sarako solar farm land drainage study

Country: Mauritius
Client: Sarako PVP Co Ltd.
Year: 2015 - 2015
Funding: Sarako PVP Co Ltd.
Contract Value: 30,000.00 €

A photo-Voltaic (PV) solar farm is set up by Sarako PVP Co Ltd. on a site of extent 80A along the lower slopes of St. Pierre Mountain, Mauritius. The objective of this assignment was to re-assess storm water runoff conditions and propose the implementation of watershed measures, as the cut off trench that was was constructed initially, at the cut embankment of a track road at the upstream end of the site, had been filled up with significant volumes of debris causing limitation of the constructed trench hydraulic capacity that resulted in flooding of the PV solar farm and erosion across the site. The project included also a filed investigation to identify the flooding problems, as well as a topographical survey for the development of a hydraulic model for the computation of the surface run-off arriving at the different locations on the farm.

Port louis drainage study

Country: Mauritius
Client: National Development Unit
Year: 2013 - 2015
Funding: National Funds
Contract Value: 138.00 €
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Port louis drainage study

Country: Mauritius
Client: National Development Unit
Year: 2013 - 2015
Funding: National Funds
Contract Value: 138.00 €

The analysis included interconnected rural and urban catchments, covering a total area of 9km2. The hydraulic design process included 1D non-uniform flow modeling of three main watercourses, namely the Signal Mountain cutoff drain, the Pouce stream, the Ruisseau des Creoles stream and their feeding drains, corresponding to a total length of 6.3km, including the evaluation of the hydraulic performance of five supercritical flow junctions, sixteen bridges and two covered sections, of around 0.8km. Moreover, it included the proposal of appropriate engineering works to alleviate flooding problems at Place d’ Armes and the investigation of potential flood peak attenuation measures at the upstream (rural and semi-urban) parts of the catchments. Among the proposed solutions was the reconstruction of insufficient bridges and culverts, the increase of the hydraulic capacity of the streams, the construction of a flood detention pond and the design of new drainage works in specific areas.

Consultancy services for land drainage and water shed management study

Country: Mauritius
Client: National Development Unit
Year: 2013 - In progress
Funding: World Bank
Contract Value: 200000
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Consultancy services for land drainage and water shed management study

Country: Mauritius
Client: National Development Unit
Year: 2013 - In progress
Funding: World Bank
Contract Value: 200000

This contract focuses on seven distinct areas of Mauritius, which have been identified as priority areas by the National Development Unit (NDU), namely: Grand Baie, Pamplemousses, Central Flacq, Cottage, Clemencia, Sebastopol, Gros Billot. The general objective is to evaluate the existing conditions, both within the flooding areas and the wider catchments, and identify the most effective solutions to alleviate these problems in the foreseeable future.The size of the catchments under study varies between 0.3 and 26.5km². The total area of the catchments that have been analysed in all seven sites is approximately 110km².Drainage networks have been proposed in nine cases, aiming mainly to solve problems of low lying areas within the settlements. A total of 28 existing bridges and culverts have been also assessed, in terms of their hydraulic capacity, and the construction of new structures has been proposed in ten cases.