Envirolink has assisted many pastoral and horticultural irrigators with their water availability assessments and resource consent applications.

Many such assessments involve drawing water from aquifer systems, so evaluating the aquifer yields, and determining the possible downstream effects on other users of the resource are necessary steps in the application process.

In the case of new well developments, Envirolink typically works alongside well drillers using test bores to carry out the initial investigation, and once that step is completed, a full pump test is often required to ascertain the availability of water from a system.