Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine design requirements
- Establish water budget based on identifying water sources that ensure water is available in sufficient quantities at all times
- Determine water and soil quality to ensure appropriate environment is provided for stock
- Design water transfer, recharge, reuse and treatment systems to conserve natural resources and match requirements for stock
- Position culture or holding structures and systems to make the best use of water resources
- Match water requirements with workplace production forecasts, expansion plans and seasonal variation
- Ensure collection and storage processes do not degrade the water quality for the workplace or the environment
- Document design calculations and decisions according to workplace requirements, ensuring construction specifications define the work required to provide suitable water for workplace
- Identify environmentally sensitive areas and land degradation issues according to legislative requirements
- Determine allowable effluent standards from relevant authority
- Define pumping and power systems
- Select pumps to deliver water efficiently from the water source or storage according to expert information or advice
- Ensure pump motor combinations are efficient, reliable, functional, serviceable and flexible for the intended application
- Optimise relationship between capital and operational costs and compare energy sources
- Select accessories and performance indicators and integrate into functional systems that can be monitored and maintained
- Document design calculations and decisions
- Define work required in construction specifications to make suitable pumping and power systems available to workplace
- Check power supply design specification with power authorities
- Identify and minimise risks associated with power configurations, personal safety, water pressures and loads through system design and appropriate operating procedures
- Design a distribution system
- Commission detailed topographic survey or an accurate map showing extent, pond tank layout, physical constraints and contours with suitable interval
- Develop excavation and earth moving plan, identifying internal or outside personnel, labour and machinery
- Determine water budgets according to evaporation and seepage characteristics and water usage practices
- Evaluate distribution systems and design according to system efficiencies, biosecurity and maintenance
- Size pipes, valves and fittings according to design system specifications
- Calculate achievable flows, water levels and pressures for the pumps
- Include mechanisms for controlling and adjusting pressure, and isolation valves to direct water to areas with different water flow schedules
- Design channel systems and attendant structures according to system requirements and calculation of channel flow velocities
- Compare soil types for erodibility to select suitable fill for construction
- Define construction plans and specifications to achieve the desired standards of uniformity and efficiency of water application
- Design a drainage, storage and treatment system
- Investigate regional geology and geography to predict sustainability of pond construction and water storage
- Use site investigations to determine depth of clay, depth of ground water, soil and water salinity and structural or chemical impediments and calculations
- Use costings to determine the most cost-effective storage system
- Develop designs in conjunction with contractors and authorities
- Design drains and structures capable of carrying planned water volumes and flow intensities
- Incorporate waste water treatment structures according to design specifications
- Determine capital expense budget
- Document design calculations and decisions and communicate relevant information clearly through plans, specifications and manuals
- Organise a competent designer to check design output against workplace objectives
- Determine material requirements and document from plans and specifications
- Estimate labour requirements based upon documented work schedule with reasonable allowance for variances in work schedules
- Attribute costing to each component based upon quoted information from suppliers or sound analysis of individual elements
- Establish management procedures
- Confirm operating expense budget is applied to the completed water supply and disposal system
- Develop contingency plans in the event of reduced water quality or quantity
- Develop procedures for handling notifications from authorities pertaining to water supply and disposal
- Involve the business in an integrated regional approach to water monitoring, quality and quantity supply issues and future planning
- Research mechanisation or automation of process or activity, including the use of specialised contract services, and introduce as required
- Establish record keeping procedures for managing water supply and disposal system that meet administrative, workplace and regulatory requirements