MNV Consulting Ltd

Specialists in water resources and hydro-power development

Browsing Posts in River gauging

River gauging is often carried out to determine the flow regime of a river for water resources purposes. A standard statistic used to represent the flow regime is the flow duration curve giving the flows which are exceeded for given percentage of time in the year. MNV has data from, over 250 river gauging stations [...]

Over the last decade, MNV has undertaken many river surveys throughout Scotland. These have been for river restoration, lake surveys, channel morphology and land management contracts with the runoff assessed, flood generation investigated and habitat conditions surveyed. Most of these surveys involve walking up all river channels, wading through bogs and crawling through overgrown hillslopes. [...]