Agriculture

Water is one of the biggest operating costs but often least understood. Good irrigation design can save thousands of dollars in running costs, as well as substantially increase yields and quality. Having designed hundreds of systems for viticultural, horticultural and broad acre applications, HydroPlan have a huge knowledge base which is used to find individual solutions for every project.

Shingleback Vineyards
Shingleback is one of the great success stories of the McLaren Vale region, a story that is being exported to most corners of the world. Award winning winemakers John Davey and Dan Hills know that the success...
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Coolmore Horse Stud, Jerrys Plains NSW
HydroPlan designed a new pumping station and irrigation system for this international horse stud in NSW. The pumping station can draw 300 L/s from the river using a 500 kW VFD control package. The 32...
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Cockatoo Sands - Kunnanurra
HydroPlan was engaged by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture in 2008 to prepare a preliminary capital cost estimate to construct the supply infrastructure for a large scale pressurised irrigation...
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Red Flag Turf Farm, Tianjin, China
Having designed and supervised construction of irrigation and water supply systems for China's largest commercial turf farm, HydroPlan developed operation manuals and signage for the operators. Translat...
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Wine Industry Supplies
A new irrigation system was required for a 230 Hectare vineyard near Bordertown, South Australia. A dual system (frost control and drip irrigation) for the Chardonnay variety was required, with drip irrigatio...
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Fords Creek Vineyard, Mudgee
This project covered 205ha and involved automatic transfer of water on demand from the river to the vineyard. This project also involved design of the vineyard pumping and filtration system, and drip irriga...
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The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is widely recognised as one of the world's finest botan...