Forward Planning For Fish Passage-Engineering constraints for implementation of fish passage treatments in culverts

Ben Cotton is a Senior Environmental Officer in TMR’s Townsville office in North Queensland, having worked there for the last 15 years. Ben is an Environmental Engineer, with a background in road construction Environmental compliance, specialising in development applications, providing an interpreter’s role between Ecology and Engineering professionals to achieve Ecological outcome within an Engineering environment.
Ben has had a variety of experience through his career, including Coastal structural compliance and Coastal processes and contaminated land management. His passion is to go beyond the limits of generic thinking when seeking an outcome on a project, encouraging innovative thinking from all angles.

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