Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Texture has significant experience and is well equipped and qualified to undertake Environmental Impact Assessments whilst applying the principles of Integrated Environmental Management. The procedures followed are those prescribed in the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 and the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations published in GN R982/2014 - R985/2014 of 8 December 2014. EIAs typically involve the following work-streams as indicated in the adjacent diagram.

Social Impact Assessments (SIA)
Social Impact Assessment is the process of in advance assessing or estimating, the social consequences that are likely to follow from specific policy actions or project development, particularly in the context of appropriate national, state, or provincial environmental policy legislation. Social impacts include all social and cultural consequences to human populations of any public or private actions that alter the ways in which people live, work, play, relate to one another, organize to meet their needs, and generally cope as members of society.

Environmental supervision
Supervision focuses on the domain of Environmental Compliance Management. Environmental Supervision monitors and reports on the variance between the environmental impact stated within the original intent for any specific development, and the subsequent and actual development behavior and environmental impact during developments. Pro-active regular assessment and feedback, based on a pre-defined monitoring schemata, assists in ensuring that potential damage to the environment is significantly curtailed.

Negotiations to obtain land rights
As experienced negotiators with an extensive network, we will get your project off the ground and moving. Whether it is negotiating land rights to enable the registration of servitudes for power lines, substations, roads, underground pipe lines, infrastructure for alternative energy to the Eskom grid and infrastructure for the mining industry, we have developed deep competence over many years to assist you in solving some of your key challenges.

Public participation
Texture has obtained significant relevant experience to co-ordinate all actions required in establishing sufficient and effective community participation and public involvement. Public participation plays an integral part in the EIA process. Our process includes identification of all Interested and Affected Parties, compilation of information documents for distribution amongst, organisation, documentation and attendance of public meetings and/or workshops (this includes chairing of meetings, presentation of projects as well as facilitation of discussions), addressing of reasonable concerns of all and the handling of conflict situations with the aim to reach reasonable consensus prior to finalisation of a project and lastly documenting of all proceedings, findings and recommendations of the Public Participation Program.

Water related expertise and services
Water uses and licensing which includes Legal Assessment (in terms of the 1998 National Water Act), Water Use Registrations , Water Use Authorisation (License) Applications (WULA) and drafting of water use license applications with supporting technical motivations.
Water management plans and assessments which include the compilation of Integrated Water and Waste Management Plans (IWWMP), water and salt balances, water quality assessments and the water’s fitness for use including impact assessments for downstream users, water balances, waste classification in terms of the minimum requirements, effluent and water consumption / water use logging and General advice related to water.
Flood-line determination which includes assessing of flood-lines, all flood-line related procedures, requirements and technical reports. Wetland studies to provide the Department of Water Affairs with the necessary information to make informed decisions on the Water Use Licence Application (WULA). The objective of the wetland study is to delineate and categorise all wetlands (and other watercourses) in the project area, to determine present environmental status (PES) as well as the potential impact of the project on these wetlands and watercourses and to propose measures to mitigate the impact.

Waste management consultancy services
Texture Environmental Consultants offer a full waste management consultancy service. We can draw from 20 years of waste and local government experience providing a professional, high quality consultancy to the waste industry with respect to:

• Integrated waste management planning
• Specialist environmental studies for unlicensed and new landfill sites
• Specialist environmental studies for transfer and material recycling facilities
• Clean development mechanism projects
• Landfill auditing
• Waste disposal solutions and alternatives, such as the recycling, reprocessing and reuse of waste
• Waste management transport planning
• Policy formulation
• Route mapping (GIS)
• Waste information (WIS)