Events & Courses

This year's AGM will be followed by a talk entitled "The Ngonye Falls Hydroelectric Power Project"

Presenter

Matt Cook, Engineering Geologist, Mott MacDonald

Summary of content

In Summer 2018, Matt worked as a Supervising Engineering Geologist for a Ground Investigation for Western Power at Ngonye Falls, Sioma in the Western Province of Zambia. The Ground Investigation ran for 10 weeks and involved a total of 21 rotary core boreholes and 4 trial pits across the site with associated in-situ testing including SPT, variable and constant head permeability and packer testing, as well as a full programme of monitoring.

Matt's talk will cover the regional geology of Western Zambia and how it varied locally as seen through the ground investigations carried out at the site. He will then outline the challenges this posed for the project and discuss how the results from the fieldwork helped in developing an understanding of the geotechnical, geomorphological and hydrogeological setting of the site.

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