Is your water compliance putting your supply contracts at risk??

Most farms we work with come to us already managing effluent in some way — a pond, an irrigation system, sometimes both. The problem is rarely that nothing's being done. It's that what's in place was built to handle volume, not to meet an audit standard or a licence condition.

A few things we consistently see:

• A pond or dam that looks fine can still fail an audit. Visual capacity isn't the same as effluent quality — SIZA and GlobalGAP assessors test BOD/COD and pathogen indicators, not just whether the system is overflowing.

• A General Authorisation has limits, even if you've never had a problem. Operations often don't realise they've drifted outside their permitted limits until an inspection flags it — by then it's a compliance issue, not a maintenance one.

• Odour is usually the first visible symptom, not the actual problem. By the time neighbours are complaining, the underlying organic load has usually been building for a while.

• Retrofitting is almost always more practical than replacing. Most of what we do works with existing ponds, dams, or irrigation systems already in place — the aim is to fix what's there, not start over.