Providing advice for the handover of the
groundwater monitoring works for the A3 Hindhead Scheme, Surrey,
EnglandChristopher Thomas joined Mott MacDonald in
2005 after graduating with a BSc and an MSc in Agrosciences with
water management from the Université d’Avignon et des Pays du
Vaucluse (France). He is a hydrogeologist working within the
Environment Division. He has experience of working on UK
groundwater and surface water projects, including water resources,
hydro-ecological assessments and groundwater pollution. His most
recent projects included the assessments of the impacts of
abstraction for public water supply on environmentally designated
features in the North West Highlands of Scotland under the Birds
and Habitats Directive programme. He also had inputs in water
quality reports dealing with mitigation of diffuse pollution in
Egypt and Sri Lanka.
Christopher has experience of working in the French water
management system including hydrogeological studies, domestic
wastewater treatment plants design, geological mapping, drinking
water treatment and irrigation system assessment and design,
geophysics, geochemistry and French water and environmental
legislation. His multidisciplinary academic background provides him
with knowledge of waste remediation, ecology, limnology,
hydrobiology and Geographical Information Systems. As a student he
undertook industrial placements in France, Reunion and Mauritius.