Consulting

LimCo International:

Scientific consulting regarding water quality issues

As experts in ecotoxicology we are your counterpart for all issues around water, water quality and innovative water management. Whether you are from a company, industry, public institution, agency, authority, action group or an educational institution, LimCo International supports you individually and performs tests of your water samples.

We also evaluate your personal exposure towards chemicals with risk assessment, water analyses and tests. We advise you on how to reduce your exposure and propose less toxic alternatives as well as environmentally friendly handling with harmful substances.

We always pursue the goal to protect nature and the environment for future generations. Therefore, we are also active in career coaching in the environment sector. Moreover, we offer our expertise and experience to design future-oriented curricula and new professions in the water sector.

With our new in-situ GamTox field test we bridge between science and practice and easily demonstrate water quality assessment, in situ biomonitoring and the value of clean water for everybody, including pupils and students, directly outside in nature.

We offer on demand scientific summaries of actual knowledge in the field of aquatic ecology (lakes, rivers), microbiology and ecotoxicology for education (in German).

Our services

In the field of expertise and consulting in overview

Bioassessment

Ecosystem evaluation of running waters (structure, diatoms, macrozoobenthos)

Sustainable, environmentally friendly tourism

Revitalisation, renaturation, restoration and ecological planning for freshwater ecosystems

Adaptation of streams to climate change

Assessment and evaluation of invasive and endangered species in running waters

Ecotoxicology

Ecotoxicological tests according to OECD and ISO guidelines (water soil, sediments):

Lemna sp. Gammarus sp., Eisenia fetida exposed to pharmaceuticals, pesticides and industrial chemicals.

In-situ toxicity tests (GamTox) for evaluation of chemical stressors in streams

Development of new automatized test systems

Consulting for insurances and juridical conflict cases

Information and advice regarding toxic substances in the water-cycle

Online-Biomonitoring

Online Biomonitoring of small streams, wastewater and drinking water

Detection and evaluation of leakages from historic pollution, e.g. waste disposals

Biomonitoring of animal welfare and animal health in aquacultures and fish farms

Control of water quality in groundwater

GamTox Test

In-situ field test for toxicity evaluation in small streams

In the framework of our InterReg IV project (2011-2013) we developed and validated our GamTox field test in Germany and Switzerland. GamTox detects pollution pulses in agricultural areas, vineyards, below waste water treatment plants and industries. GamTox allows an ecologically relevant ecotoxicological in-situ bioassessment in small streams. As it is easy to perform, it is excellently suited in school teaching, universities, authorities and NGOs.

GamTox has already been used successfully in the following settings:

Water quality bioassessment in agricultural areas (e.g. Germany, Switzerland, Lake Constance-region, NRW, Bavaria)

Water quality survey in metal- and coal mining areas (e.g. Portugal, Germany)

Scientific research projects