Water Resources

Alan co-founded PDP in 1986 after spending 10 years in the UK and Asia gaining international experience. Since its inception, he has overseen the company's growth from its core groundwater focus into a multidisciplinary environmental engineering and science consultancy.

Alan is an Auckland-based director of the company who has over 36 years of experience. He is actively involved at the technical and management level in a wide range of projects undertaken by the company including technical oversight of the company’s water resources and wastewater services. He is regularly called to appear as an expert witness for hearings at territorial authorities and the Environment Court.

Bas has 12 years of experience as a senior hydrologist/environmental scientist specialising in hydrology and hydraulic investigations. This experience has included irrigation demand-supply studies, flood assessments, rainfall-runoff modelling, hydraulic routing, site investigation, conceptual design and associated resource management (consenting) requirements.

Bas is involved in various projects related to the development and consenting of irrigation schemes, large and small-scale water supply, hydro-power and stormwater projects. He has extensive experience with many current hydrological and hydraulic modelling packages. He has been involved in several peer review projects for corporate clients, local and regional councils as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and has experience in preparing and presenting evidence at resource consent and plan change hearings.

Blair is a Technical Director at PDP with over 17 years of professional consulting experience in New Zealand and Australia, working with clients across all industry sectors.  Blair’s technical expertise spans multiple areas of water resource science including hydrogeology, hydrology, groundwater modelling, water resource management/allocation and groundwater investigations.

Since joining PDP’s Tauranga office in 2015, Blair has managed and undertaken projects to: develop privately owned and council water supplies; complete technical assessments for major infrastructure developments; and provide specialist advice to regulatory authorities.  Blair has presented expert evidence at consent hearings on behalf of both applicants and councils for water take, wastewater discharge and infrastructure proposals.

Blair has a passion for delivering excellent outcomes for clients based on sound technical advice with a focus on quality, innovation, and clear communication.

Carl is a hydrogeologist with over 9 years of experience on water resources-related projects throughout New Zealand. He has experience in groundwater resource evaluation and modelling which includes hydrogeological field testing, data interpretation/analysis and reporting. Additionally, Carl has been involved in the management of Assessment of Environmental Effects reports for consent applications and has presented evidence at resource consent hearings.

Clare has over 13 years of project management and technical experience in New Zealand and overseas. Clare has a strong track record of delivering quality projects on budget and time. She is highly skilled in leading multi-disciplinary teams to achieve her client's objectives. Clare has excellent interpersonal skills and is proficient at building relationships with clients, other professionals and stakeholders.

Clare’s technical expertise includes water resources management, hydrogeology, assessment of environmental effects, water quality analysis, field investigations and modelling. She has a particular talent for communicating complex technical information concisely and simply.

Hilary is an environmental engineer with 19 years of experience working on a wide range of civil and environmental engineering projects including groundwater, water supply, wastewater and stormwater projects. She is experienced in managing projects from the feasibility stage through to detailed site investigation including field testing & analysis, resource consent procurement including presentation of expert evidence at consent hearings, conceptual and detailed design and construction management.

Hilary is recognised for her specialised skills in managing investigations and assessments relating to groundwater issues, including groundwater-surface water interaction, impacts of abstraction from and discharge to groundwater and contaminant transport, including nutrients, through soil and groundwater. She is skilled in numerical and analytical groundwater modelling. She completed her Masters in Civil Engineering in 2004 on groundwater-surface water interaction and she continues to conduct research in this area and provides advice to Council and other organisations.

Katy has 16 years of experience as a professional consultant proving technical solutions to groundwater issues in New Zealand, Australia and overseas. She has assisted a broad range of clients in the agriculture, construction and mining sectors, as well as various government bodies, with issues around water supply, dewatering, groundwater contamination and wastewater management. She specialises in hydrogeological conceptualisations, groundwater resource evaluation and environmental and aquifer impact assessments.

Katy has significant experience designing and managing groundwater supply projects from the initial desk-based assessment, through the field investigation, resource modelling and borefield design, to obtaining resource consent. She also regularly assists the contaminated land team with the hydrogeological aspects of their projects.

Neil is a hydrogeologist with 14 years of experience. His key skills are in regional and local scale groundwater modelling. Neil has also been involved in a wide range of consenting projects in New Zealand and specifically Christchurch, including presenting evidence at hearings. He is also involved with the technical review of consent applications on behalf of several regional councils. 

Neil’s role at PDP involves working on a wide range of groundwater management issues including assessments of groundwater quality and quantity within Canterbury, and elsewhere in New Zealand. These include the effects of land use and activities on groundwater and the interaction between groundwater and surface waterways. Neil has extensive experience with groundwater models including detailed uncertainty analysis, gained both in New Zealand and in the UK. 

Parviz is a hydrogeologist, specialising in groundwater assessment. He has over 15 years of experience relating to the assessment of groundwater resources, hydrogeological assessments and groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling. He has also been involved in the preparation of AEE documents for various consent applications related to groundwater resource and environmental effects assessment.

Additionally, Parviz has developed numerous groundwater models throughout the greater Auckland area, including a comprehensive groundwater model for the whole Auckland Isthmus as part of the Global Aquifer Study (GAS) and has won the modelling award for the best paper at the Water NZ Conference in 2010.

Peter is one of PDP’s Christchurch-based directors, with over 25 years of experience in environmental assessment and management, with a focus on groundwater and contamination issues. He was the lead author of nationally utilised guideline documents dealing with the effects of groundwater pumping on surface water bodies and the management and monitoring of seawater intrusion on groundwater in coastal aquifers.

Possessing significant experience as an expert witness, Peter has provided technical evidence related to groundwater effects in hearings for the consenting of landfills, hydroelectric power schemes, and community irrigation schemes. He is also involved in hearings and debates regarding groundwater allocation and water management issues and planning requirements to protect both surface water and groundwater quality.

As a certified Independent Hearing Commissioner Peter has fulfilled that role for regional council hearing panels dealing with resource consent applications for water abstraction and wastewater discharge activities.

Ramon is a Chartered Professional Engineer with 30 years of experience in civil engineering, primarily in the areas of river engineering/flood management and geotechnical engineering. That’s mainly been in Aotearoa but includes working in Australia, Indonesia and the UK. He is a member of Engineering New Zealand and the Rivers Group and is a member of the NZ Society on Large Dams (NZSOLD) management committee.

His experience encompasses both broader management approaches/ strategy development for river systems as well as the technical and practical/operational aspects. That encompasses modelling (physical scale and computational) and gravel/sediment transport to the design and construction of stopbanks, training structures, weirs/ drop structures and spillways. Ramon is also an experienced assessor of irrigation and detention dams.