Consulting & Expertise

LimCo International:

Consulting regarding water quality issues, water body protection and climate change adaptation

As experts in aquatic ecology and ecotoxicology we are your counterpart for all issues around water, water quality and innovative water management.

The UN-decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), the German Climate change adaptation law (2023) and the German Peatland protection law (2022) serve as a good basis to protect, restore, preserve and manage aquatic and wetland biotops.

We advise and accompany you in this process at your selected sites.

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.

Climate change leads to increasing floods, stormwater and drought periods. Water is the central factor. As water experts we offer consultancies for municipalities, companies and tourism industries to develop individual solutions for climate change adaptation.

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

Consultancies for licences and permits of effluents

Climate change adaptation

Blue-green infrastructure concepts for cities

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

Nature and Biodiversity protection in cities

Alternative tourism and use of lifts in ski-areas

Information and advice regarding toxic substances in the water-cycle

Wetland assessment and restoration

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